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Amid Rising Emissions, Could Congressional Republicans Help the US Reach Its Climate Targets?

Key House committee chairmen say they are concerned about the threat of climate change, but focus more on removing carbon from the atmosphere than on reducing emissions from fossil fuels.

By Emma Ricketts, Grant Schwab

Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) speaks in the House Chamber during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) speaks at a House Republican news conference on energy policy at the U.S. Capitol on March 8, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Weak GOP Performance in Midterms Blunts Possible Attacks on Biden Climate Agenda, Observers Say

By Marianne Lavelle

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) speaks to reporters before a hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Senate Democrats Produce a Far-Reaching Climate Bill, But the Price of Compromise with Joe Manchin is Years More Drilling for Oil and Gas

By Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz

Joseph Goffman faces questioning from Senators during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Credit: Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

Biden’s Pick for the EPA’s Top Air Pollution Job Finds Himself Caught in the Crossfire

By Marianne Lavelle

Pennsylvania Rep. Summer Lee (D) speaks on stage about the change of the face of power in the United States after a history making number of diverse members were sworn into Congress the past elections, during a keynote discussion of the Netroots Nation progressive grassroots convention in Philadelphia on July 13, 2019. Credit: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Climate Progressive Leads a Crowded Democratic Field for Pittsburgh’s 12th Congressional District Seat

By Kristoffer Tigue

Plastic and other debris floats underwater in the Red Sea off Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Credit: Andrey Nekrasov / Barcroft Media via Getty Images.

A Commonsense Proposal to Deal With Plastics Pollution: Stop Making So Much Plastic

By James Bruggers

Big Oil’s Top Executives Strike a Common Theme in Testimony on Capitol Hill: It Never Happened

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) catch and an elevator to go to the Senate Chamber to vote, in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

With Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Snubbing of the Democrats’ Reconciliation Plans, Environmental Advocates Ask, ‘Which Side Are You On?’

By Judy Fahys

Will the Democrats’ Climate Legislation Hinge on Carbon Capture?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Laurie Barr, co-founder of Save Our Steams Pennsylvania, searches abandoned oil wells for pollutants as an old pumpjack stands in the Allegeny National Forest near Marienville, Pennsylvania, on Monday, June 6, 2016. Credit: Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Biden Takes Aim at Reducing Emissions of Super-Polluting Methane Gas, With or Without the Republicans

By Marianne Lavelle

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, walks to his office from the Senate Floor at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Dec. 18, 2020. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Clean Energy Wins Big in Covid-19 Legislation

By Dan Gearino

Gas flaring in North Dakota

GOP Fails to Kill Methane Rule in a Capitol Hill Defeat for Oil and Gas Industry

By Georgina Gustin

A bipartisan bill in Congress raises the climate conversation in Washington

Modest Climate Bill Draws Sponsors From Both Sides of the Aisle

By Sabrina Shankman

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV)

Keystone Loses 50 Democratic Votes. Why?

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner

Clean Energy: What to Expect in 2013

By Maria Gallucci

A Climate and Energy Shift in the New Congress?

By Jason Plautz

Submerged oil recovery on the Kalamazoo, June 2011

Is Dilbit Oil? IRS & Congress Say No

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

River closed sign near the Kalamazoo River

Keystone XL: Safety Rules Won't Apply

By Elizabeth McGowan and Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

House Republican leadership press conference

Clean Energy on GOP Chopping Block 13x

By Maria Gallucci, InsideClimate News

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