Bill would protect Yampa Valley coal plants’ water from abandonment Senate Bill 197 says that industrial water rights held by Xcel Energy and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc. will be protected from abandonment through 2050. 04/17/2024 - 11:25 am | View Link
Republican AGs attack Biden’s EPA for pursuing environmental discrimination cases Their petition demands that the EPA change decades-old rules ... changes to environmental policy. Under the Biden administration, however, environmental and civil rights groups were hopeful ... 04/17/2024 - 7:31 am | View Link
Republican AGs Attack Biden's EPA for Pursuing Environmental Discrimination Cases Their petition demands that the EPA change decades-old rules ... changes to environmental policy. Under the Biden administration, however, environmental and civil rights groups were hopeful ... 04/17/2024 - 7:11 am | View Link
A Washington State Coal Plant Has to Close Next Year. Can Pennsylvania Communities Learn From Centralia’s Transition? Under pressure from climate activists to close, the plant agreed to a deadline and put millions in a transition fund. That’s giving Centralia a chance. 04/16/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
EPA denies energy industry petition to shield turbines from air rules WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday denied a years-old petition by energy industry groups ... rules would jeopardize their gas exports to Europe at ... 04/15/2024 - 9:38 am | View Link
“Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA), a first-term progressive Democrat, won her primary contest in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday, fending off a moderate challenger in a race that centered on her stance on the war in Gaza,” the New York Times reports.
“The primary, in Pennsylvania’s 12th District, presented one of this year’s first down-ballot tests of whether left-wing incumbents would be hurt by their opposition to Israel’s military campaign.”
NOTUS: Other progressives may use Summer Lee’s playbook.
The U. S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, 79 to 18, sending it to President Biden’s desk, the New York Times reports.
“The vote reflected resounding bipartisan support for the measure, which passed the House on Saturday by lopsided margins after a tortured journey on Capitol Hill, where it was nearly derailed by right-wing resistance.”
“And it capped an extraordinary political saga that raised questions about whether the United States would continue to play a leading role in upholding the international order and projecting its values globally.”
“Donald Trump took his boast about overturning Roe v. Wade to a critical swing state Tuesday, even as he was stuck in court in New York City,” Los Angeles Magazine reports.
Said Trump: “When you look at it and you look at what’s happening all over the country now, states are voting.
Reacting for the first time to Donald Trump’s vow to order the Justice Department to investigate his political opponents, FBI Director Christopher Wray said he would not allow his agents to conduct any investigation that doesn’t comply with “our rules, our procedures, our best practices, our core values,” NBC News reports.
Wisconsin U. S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde (R) missed a line in the Pledge of Allegiance at a recent appearance, skipping “one nation, under God” and going right to “indivisible,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Politico: “If the opening week of Trump’s hush-money trial laid bare the courtroom’s constraints on Trump, no single 24-hour stretch demonstrated the extreme asymmetry of the unfolding campaign more than Tuesday. There was Biden making campaign stops with fawning supporters of abortion rights in Tampa, Florida, while Trump was sitting in a “freezing” Manhattan courtroom, with barely any supporters in sight.”
Said Trump: “He’s out campaigning, and I’m here in the courtroom, sitting here, sitting up as straight as I can all day long.”
He added: “It’s a very unfair situation.