Alex Guillén

Republicans will use a House hearing and a markup Wednesday to fan the flames over proposed DOE efficiency standards.

The groups charge BLM with failing to consider the project’s impacts on lands used for subsistence by Alaska Natives and argue the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to properly consider Willow’s potential impacts on endangered species such as polar bears.

The Biden administration isn’t proposing to outlaw the fossil-fuel-powered appliances. But they’re at the center of a growing nationwide debate about city and state gas bans — and the latest Washington culture war.

Many of Biden’s supporters in Congress are urging him to go bold nonetheless.

The legal doctrine that the conservative justices used to strike down an EPA regulation in late June is popping up in a host of new legal challenges — including many having nothing to do with climate change.

It wouldn’t be easy, but Democrats could still look to Congress, other kinds of regulations or the states in their effort to cut greenhouse gases.

A legal fight over the EPA’s power to restrict greenhouse gases offers conservative justices an opportunity to tie the executive branch’s hands on a host of issues — from Covid to net neutrality.

These are kinds of regulations that may fall under a legal cloud after the Supreme Court decides on an EPA climate change case.

The decision means the White House can move forward with its plans to overhaul and likely significantly increase the number known as the social cost of carbon.

The rule will allow agencies to expand consideration of environmental justice factors in decision-making.