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U.S. Senate Committee On Environment and Public Works
60 votes not so super for Obama, Senate Democrats
Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass ...
EPA targets 44 coal ash sites in 10 states
Forty-four coal ash storage sites near 26 communities have been targeted for inspection after federal officials identified the ponds as potential ...
EPA: agency must improve surface mining regulation
Regulators must figure out if a common method of surface coal mining is damaging Appalachian watersheds, but may be unable to do so, a U.S. ...
White House hunting for $20B for highways, transit
The Obama administration is scrambling to find an extra $20 billion to keep highway and transit construction projects and the thousands of jobs they ...
Crapo warns he'll filibuster clean water bill
U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo is threatening to use "every tool and privilege" he has to slow or stop federal legislation aimed at bolstering the federal ...
Klobuchar to introduce 'dig once' bill
Sen. Amy Klobuchar says she doesn't want drivers to be inconvenienced by road construction any more than they have to be. So she's introducing a "dig ...
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