Despite renewed calls for an assault weapons ban after a string of mass shootings, prospects for passage of any new gun safety legislation in a divided Congress are poor.
Gun violence is an epidemic in the United States. And 63 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the nation’s gun laws, according to a Gallup Poll released Wednesday. That is the highest level of public disapproval in the 23 years the poll has tracked the issue.
by Eric Ruark
NEPA stands for the National Environmental Policy Act which was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on January 1, 1970.
[NEPA] requires the federal government to use all practicable means to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony.
On the NEPA.gov homepage it says that the legislation is the “‘Magna Carta’ of Federal environmental laws.” This all may sound like fanciful descriptions of a federal statute, but NEPA really is one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in American history, and as such it can cause great controversy with how and when it’s applied; and when it’s ignored by the executive branch for political or ideological reasons.
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THE BARGAIN: Labor groups of all stripes are lining up behind President
Joe Biden’s green infrastructure plans, as long he delivers on his promise to close the job quality gap between renewable energy and fossil fuel-related employment.
At an event with Sen.
Joe Manchin we wrote about in yesterday’s edition, the United Mine Workers of America said it was prepared to accept a transition away from fossil fuels if it came with financial aid for miners who lost their jobs, employment opportunities in renewable energy, and investment in carbon capture technology.
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A duo of lawmakers is pushing legislation to encourage more domestic mining of critical minerals, adding bipartisanship to the GOP-led fight to break the United States s dependence on China for the raw materials forming the backbone of the economy.
Texas Reps. Lance Gooden, a Republican, and Vicente Gonzalez, a Democrat, unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would create permanent tax incentives for the mining and recycling of critical minerals in the U.S. Those minerals, which include lithium, graphite, and cobalt, are used in everything from military equipment to renewable energy and batteries.
The legislation, shared first with the