Remove category congress
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

Circle of Blue

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Congress rejected President Richard Nixon’s veto and enacted the Clean Water Act. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . Six months later the U.S.

article thumbnail

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.

2010 104