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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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However, a draft version of the Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee’s section of the bill published by Politico included important environmental and scientific provisions: The Department of Energy Office of Science receives $866 million, including $274 million for Biological and Environmental Research. Executive Branch.

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Will We Let the US Supreme Court Further Dismantle Democracy in the Moore v Harper case?

Union of Concerned Scientists

On December 7, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Moore v Harper , a case about the gerrymandering of Congressional districts in North Carolina. On its face, the case hinges on an abstract legal debate over the meaning of the word “legislature” in Article I, Section 4 of the US Constitution.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have expressed concerns over the total price tag of the budget reconciliation bill. . The bill repels section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021.

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ESA Policy News: August 16, 2021

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Both Senators voted for a procedural motion to advance consideration of the bill but have expressed concerns about the total price tag. We will go big on public housing and go big on help for first time homebuyers’ down payments and Section 8 vouchers and removal of lead in pipes,” Brown said this week. “We A provision in the U.S.

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