Print this article
Subscribe today to the
Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what s going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue!
CLIMATE STAKES OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE FIGHT: President
Joe Biden will introduce a $6 trillion budget today reiterating his interest in passing large new investments in clean energy and fighting climate change. But as we somehow are upon Memorial Day, it’s getting near crunch time for the administration to turn its priorities into law through its only real vehicle of doing it infrastructure legislation.
Biden yesterday said he is
Print this article
Subscribe today to the
Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what s going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue!
REVOLT AT BIG OIL: Don’t get it twisted. Big Oil’s day of reckoning was a pick your superlative historical moment. But it remains to be seen whether the success of climate activism in forcing large oil and gas companies to diversify and move faster off fossil fuels will actually lead to meaningful emissions reductions.
First, to recap yesterday’s events: ExxonMobil is essentially being
Print this article
Subscribe today to the
Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what s going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue!
CHENEY VERSUS STEFANIK ON CLIMATE: The expected swap of
Liz Cheney for
Donald Trump than policy.
But something about the change in the Republican power structure struck us as noteworthy.
Stefanik, despite her pro-Trump rhetoric, is actually among one of the most liberal Republicans, while Cheney has a very conservative voting record.
Their views on climate change might be among the biggest contrasts.
An early climate champion: Stefanik, a 36-year-old from upstate New York, was the lead
Daily on Energy, presented by Bipartisan Policy Center: House GOP plays defense with clean energy proposal Print this article
Subscribe today to the
Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what s going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue!
PLAYING DEFENSE: House Republican leaders released an
agenda this morning to “secure cleaner American energy.” The proposal is mostly a mix of previously released legislation.
The proposal from Republicans of the Energy and Commerce Committee suggests the GOP believes it can retake the House in 2022 by adopting a defensive posture against Democratic energy and climate policies.
Print this article
Subscribe today to the
Washington Examiner magazine and get Washington Briefing: politics and policy stories that will keep you up to date with what s going on in Washington. SUBSCRIBE NOW: Just $1.00 an issue!
MORE AUTOMAKERS ABANDON TRUMP ROLLBACK: More major automakers, including Toyota and Fiat Chrysler,
Donald Trump s regulatory rollbacks to get in the Biden administration’s good graces.
Seven companies said today that they were dropping support for the Trump administration s effort to limit California’s ability to set its own tailpipe greenhouse gas limits. In a joint statement, the companies said they made the decision in a “gesture of good faith and to find a constructive path forward” on fuel economy standards with the Biden administration.