Daily on Energy ⚡: Here are all the latest developments related to East Palestine, Ohio
ROUNDING UP THE LATEST ON EAST PALESTINE: House and Senate lawmakers announced new investigations, documents requests, and hearings into the East Palestine train derailment this week.Complaints are divided along party lines. Democrats blame former President Donald Trump for his 2018 rollback of a mandate requiring electronically controlled pneumatic brakes, or ECPs, on some trains.
EPA Administrator Michael Regan is in East Palestine today for the third time since the derailment, where he will hold a round table and press conference. The Congressional Review Act resolution, which has a companion in the Senate supported by half the chamber’s members, including Sen. Joe Manchin, is the culmination of the last year of anti-ESG campaigning Republicans have carried out at the state level and in Congress.
HOUSE T&I ADVANCES RESOLUTION TO REPEAL WOTUS: It’s all Congressional Review Act resolutions today. House Transportation and Infrastructure passed Republicans’ measure to cancel the Biden administration’s “waters of the United States” rule. Several WOTUS storylines going on at once: Republicans passed their resolution as the Supreme Court weighs whether to put new constraints on the federal agencies’ regulatory authorities under WOTUS in Sackett v. EPA. Justices heard argument in that case in October and a ruling could come imminently.
Other proposals before Natural Resources today would reform NEPA in a bid to speed up permitting and amend federal law to ensure more regular oil and gas leasing on federal lands.RUBIO TARGETS BIDEN, INDUSTRIAL EV PUSH AS ‘TROJAN HORSE’ FOR CHINA: Sen.
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