Budget Issues: Opportunities to Reduce Federal Fiscal Exposures Through Greater Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather - GAO Testimony before the Senate Budget Committee hearing entitled, The Costs of Inaction: The Economic and Budgetary Consequences of Climate Change
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
White House Report: The Cost of Delaying Action to Stem Climate Change
Monday, July 28, 2014
EPA Media Call & Public Hearings On Clean Power Plan
EPA Administrator Holding Media Call to Preview Public Hearings on Clean Power Plan - Today, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will discuss the importance of public input on the proposed Clean Power Plan. Next week, there will be four, two-day public hearings in
Monday, July 21, 2014
Comments On The Administration's Build America Investment Initiative
Friday, July 18, 2014
President Obama's Bridges, Roads & Infrastructure Initiative
President Obama: "Let's Build Some Bridges. Let's Build Some Roads." - President Barack Obama delivers remarks before he signs an executive action creating the Build America Investment Initiative during an event near the Interstate 495 Bridge at the
- FACT SHEET: Building a 21st Century Infrastructure: Increasing Public and Private Collaboration with the Build America Investment Initiative
- Remarks by the President on the Economy -- Wilmington, DE
- Presidential Memorandum -- Expanding Public-Private Collaboration on Infrastructure Development and Financing
Thursday, July 17, 2014
President's Remarks At Climate Preparedness and Resilience Meeting
Remarks by the President at Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience Meeting "We've got Democrats and Republicans and independents from all the across the nation. And we are here because we know that climate change is an undeniable scientific fact. . ."
- Preparing Communities for the Impacts of Climate Change - President Barack Obama drops by a meeting of the Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, in the State Dining Room of the White House
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
White House Fact Sheet On Support For Impacts of Climate Change
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Petra Nova Project: Largest Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project
Monday, July 14, 2014
NOAA : Australia's rainfall decline due to increases in manmade GHG emissions
Friday, July 11, 2014
House Passes Energy/Water Funding -- Administration Would Veto
House Passes H.R. 4923, the FY 2015 Energy & Water Appropriations Bill - On a bipartisan vote of 253-170, the bill totals $34 billion a $50 million reduction from the fiscal year 2014 enacted level and an increase of $327 million above the President's request.
- Blackburn Secures Provision to Save Our Ceiling Fans & Protect American Jobs in FY15 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill - Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today continued her fight against burdensome regulations being imposed on American ceiling fan manufacturers
- The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 4923 - If the President were presented with H.R. 4923, his senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill
Thursday, July 10, 2014
EPA Testifies On "Waters of the United States"
- Smith: Water Rule Part of EPA 'Regulation Rampage' - Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) said the proposed water rule expands EPA jurisdiction over private property
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
Hot Environmental News
<> Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2015 Interior and Environment Bill - The House Appropriations Committee today released the fiscal year 2015 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation includes funding for Department of the Interior, EPA, the Forest Service, and various independent and related agencies |
<> EPA Air Chief Comments On Process For Climate Plan - "With all the coverage of EPA's Clean Power Plan, I wanted to take a few minutes or a few hundred words to tell you about the process we followed to write our 645-page proposal. The bottom line is that it is the product of many months of hard thinking and data analysis by EPA staff and substantial input from literally thousands of thoughtful stakeholders."
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