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A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Democrats on Dec. 13 would grant
FERC numerous new authorities over interregional transmission in a bid to spur large projects and increase the flow of renewable energy across state lines.
Two of the House’s biggest clean energy enthusiasts Wednesday dropped their long-anticipated pitch on transmission in a bid to coalesce Democrats around a landmark permitting plan to accelerate renewable energy development.
The bill from Democratic Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois and Mike Levin of California would ease transmission build-out, expand renewable energy and fix the country’s jumbled electricity system.
House Democrats formally outlined what they want the nation’s energy system to look like in a bill filed early Wednesday morning.
“We as Democrats have been too silent on what is Democratic energy policy,” Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) told The Hill.
Democrats are floating a new consensus permitting bill to rally around. At least, that’s the goal of new legislation from Reps. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) and Sean Casten (D-Ill.) that’s been almost a year in the making.
- Plan viewed as alternative to GOP domestic energy agenda
- Bill would boost FERC’s role in renewable energy projects
Reps. Mike Levin and Sean Casten this morning released transmission and permitting legislation — the most ambitious bill on those issues that Democrats have put out so far.
WASHINGTON (WAND) — The House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) — through the leadership of the SEEC Climate Jobs Task Force — hosted a public roundtable with climate workers who are at the center of America’s clean energy future.
House Republicans on Tuesday doubled down against Biden administration policies designed to curb the worst effects of global warming — the same day the federal government released an annual report warning that climate change was becoming an increasingly dire threat to both people and the planet.
The split-screen effect of the two events underscores the divide between the parties at a fragile moment for climate talks broadly.
In Denali National Park and Preserve, effects of climate change are wide-ranging and dramatic.
There are landslides being triggered by warming temperatures and thaw, glaciers shrinking, plants expanding their territory upslope, shifting populations of animals from insects to large mammals, struggling salmon runs in the Yukon River basin that pass through the park area – and there is a documented record of rising temperatures, especially in winter.
House Republicans on Friday muscled through the annual defense policy bill, including one provision that would block the Defense Department from implementing President Joe Biden’s climate orders.
The final vote on the National Defense Authorization Act was a tight one, 219-210, with each party losing four votes.
It came after a week of Republican turmoil on a host of hot-button amendments on abortion, transgender care and diversity initiatives. Those amendments were all adopted, prompting most Democrats to vote against the $886 billion bill.