Washington Post
Dec. 6, 2018
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wrote in a
Washington Post
op-ed that if President Trump wants a deal on infrastructure spending in the next Congress, measures to address climate change must be part of the package.
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We should provide permanent tax credits for clean-energy production and storage, electric vehicles, and energy- efficient homes," writes Schumer. "We should invest in conservation, wildlife and deferred maintenance on our public lands, because this can both mitigate the impacts of climate change and grow the outdoor economy. We should significantly reduce the release of methane pollution from domestic energy production. And we have to reduce the amount of carbon we release into the atmosphere."
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Morning Consult
Dec. 6, 2018
More voters in the United States in 2018 think climate change is being caused by human activity than they did in 2015, according to a new survey — but trust in the science on climate change is not shared equally, with Republicans about as likely to consider President Donald Trump a credible figure on the issue as they are scientists.
A Morning Consult/Politico
poll
of 1,975 U.S. registered voters conducted Dec. 4 found that 58 percent of respondents said their view most closely adheres to the perspective that climate change is caused by human action — a 13-percentage-point uptick from the 45 percent who said the same in a Nov. 20-23, 2015, Morning Consult survey of 2,018 voters. In the recent poll, 30 percent of voters said they were most inclined to think climate change is more of a natural phenomenon, down from 37 percent in 2015. The new poll’s margin of error is 2 percentage points.
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Dec. 6, 2018
A bipartisan group of Senators are urging the Department of Energy to release delayed guidance and documentation for the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP).
The letter, signed by Sens.
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jack Reed (D-RI), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA),
comes after DOE missed a deadline to deliver information concerning state allocations to WAP grantees, which the Senators fear could impact weatherization funding.
The Nickel Report
Dec. 3, 2018
A pending petition for rulemaking under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) could represent the latest test of the scope of TSCA’s citizen petition provisions. Denial of this petition would tee up a precedent-setting court battle addressing citizens’ ability to force EPA to exercise its TSCA section 8 authority to require chemical data reporting.
And while the petition on its face is focused on requiring additional information collection, it could have important implications for EPA’s implementation of TSCA’s amended provisions regarding regulation of existing chemicals under section 6.
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