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Nuclear Plant Closures And Renewables Increase Electricity Prices & Unreliability, Testifies Michael Shellenberger to U.S. Senate

Environmental Progress

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. While energy sources across all categories failed in mid-February, they didn’t all fail equally.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

Congress rejected President Richard Nixon’s veto and enacted the Clean Water Act. While providing water quality regulators ample legal tools to stem the flow of “point source” pollutants from cities and industry, Congress limited tools to control “nonpoint” pollution running off the land. . Six months later the U.S. did just that.

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Biden’s Economic Recovery Path: How Budget Reconciliation Plays a Role in Passing $3.5 Trillion in Relief

Arnold Porter

While presidents have used reconciliation to enact 22 bills since 1980, Democrats have the opportunity this year to use reconciliation twice in the same calendar year[[N: In order for Congress to pass a reconciliation bill, Congress must pass a budget resolution. 107-16); Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (P.L.

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Research briefing: why are reports of hate crime surging during the Israel-Hamas conflict?

Environmental Progress

In 1990, Congress passed the Television Program Improvement Act granting antitrust immunity to broadcasters to enable them to jointly set guidelines “designed to alleviate the negative impact of violence in telecast material.” 1 that his administration is working on a national strategy to counter Islamophobia. 554 incidents of vandalism.’