Week of 3/14
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House Democrats send a letter urging President Biden to restart spending bill negotiations and prioritize climate change (House Member Website)
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House Democrats send a letter urging President Biden to restart spending bill negotiations and prioritize climate change (House Member Website)
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FACT SHEET: United States Bans Imports of Russian Oil, Liquefied Natural Gas, and Coal (White House )
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Democrats are seeking to reconfigure the stalled “Build Back Better Act” within reconciliation (E&E News)
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Lawmakers release fiscal 2022 spending deal, including clean energy and environment spending at lower levels than what Democrats had hoped (E&E News)
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CEQ Announces Public Listening Sessions and Training Webinars on Draft Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool. Public Engagement Sessions to Gather Feedback on Screening Tool that Will Help Federal Agencies Ensure that the Benefits of Federal Programs are Reaching Disadvantaged Communities. (White House)
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Biden Administration Releases Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Guidebook for State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Governments (White House)
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President Biden announced during his remarks at the U.S. Conference of Mayors that his Administration is teaming up with states, cities, labor, and industry to launch the Building Performance Standards Coalition, a first-of-its-kind partnership between 33 state and local governments dedicated to delivering cleaner, healthier, and more affordable buildings. (White House)
One-Year Wrap-Up: Highlights from the Council on Environmental Quality’s Progress in Tackling the Climate Crisis, Advancing Environmental Justice, Conserving and Restoring Lands and Waters, Boosting Clean Energy Investments and Strengthening Federal Sustainability. (White House)
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The Biden-Harris Administration is making major leaps forward on wind, solar, transmission, and other clean energy projects to create high-quality jobs and deliver affordable, carbon pollution-free electricity across the country. (White House)
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Manchin pulls support from $2.2T Build Back Better bill, imperiling passage of social safety net, climate and other provisions (The New York Times)
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FACT SHEET: President Biden Signs Executive Order Catalyzing America’s Clean Energy Economy Through Federal Sustainability (White House website)
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President Biden Announces the Build Back Better Framework (White House website)
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Senator Joe Manchin III (D-West Virginia) told the White House he is firmly against the Clean Electricity Program – a program to rapidly replace the nation’s coal- and gas-fired power plants with wind, solar and nuclear energy – which will impact the President’s climate agenda.
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On October 7, 2021, the White House announced the release of more than 20 Federal Agency Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plans (Office of the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer)
The House Natural Resources Committee approved $25.6 billion reconciliation measure to fund climate corps, coastal protection, wildfire management, tribal & territorial Needs (Natural Resources Committee website)
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COVID-19 Response & Recovery
On Thursday, March 11, President Joseph R. Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law. This $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package was passed through the Senate on Monday along a party-line vote 50-49, and subsequently the House of Representatives on Wednesday by a margin of 220-211. (Congress.gov)
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