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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced more than $25 million in funding through grants and interagency agreements to 85 tribes in California.
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EPA grants $224 million loan for Los Angeles for water infrastructure

On Oct. 26, at a virtual event with Mayor Eric Garcetti, California Water Resources Control Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel, and other officials, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Assistant Administrator for Water Radhika Fox announced a $224 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation.
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California tribes awarded $25 million from EPA for environmental improvements

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks November as Native American Heritage Month, the agency is announcing over $25 million in funding through grants and interagency agreements to 85 tribes in California to invest in environmental programs and water infrastructure.
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$23 million granted by EPA to improvements to tribal lands in Arizona

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks November as Native American Heritage Month, the agency is announcing over $23 million in funding to 17 tribes in Arizona to invest in environmental protection programs and water infrastructure.
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Final biological evaluations for three herbicides issued by EPA

After consideration of public comments, EPA has finalized its biological evaluations (BEs) for glyphosate, atrazine, and simazine, three herbicides that are used to control a variety of grasses and broadleaf weeds.
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Pallone Praises House Passage of Build Back Better Act

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement praising House passage of H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act...
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E&C Republicans: 'President Biden and the EPA are proposing more regulations that could raise energy prices even more for families'

Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released proposed methane standard
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Leader Rodgers Statement on CBO Estimates of E&C Provisions in the Tax and Spending Spree

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s table of Energy and Commerce provisions in the tax and spending spree.
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Families Need Hope – Not a Government That Has Power Over Life and Death

News Release: Ever since her signature socialist price control scheme, H.R. 3, failed with a bipartisan vote in the Energy and Commerce Committee, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s been working to revive it in the tax and spending spree. Despite many rewrites behind closed doors, her price controls will still lead to fewer cures, less innovation, and no hope.
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EPA seeks public comment on additional cleanup for superfund site in Michigan

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is set to hold a virtual public meeting Nov. 30 to address contamination concerns at Adam’s Plating Superfund site in Lansing, Michigan.
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Commercial ships fined by EPA over permit violations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has slapped fines on a pair of commercials ships found to have run afoul of the agency’s inspection and monitoring rules and the need to report violations.
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EPA announces Nov. 30 public hearing on proposal to cut methane from oil, natural gas industries

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is weighing the enactment of a rule supporters say could drastically reduce methane and other harmful air pollution from both new and existing sources in the oil and natural gas industry.
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Leader Rodgers: Socialism Controls. Freedom Creates.

News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a GOP Leadership press conference today, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks about how President Joe Biden’s energy crisis will get worse under the tax and spending spree.
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Pallone Remarks at Full Committee Markup of 12 Bills

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a full Committee markup of 12 bills out of the Health, Communications and Technology, and Consumer Protection and Commerce subcommittees...
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Pallone Applauds Committee Passage of 12 Bipartisan Bills

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Full Committee voted to advance 12 bipartisan bills...
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Leader Rodgers Opening Remarks at Full Committee Markup of 12 Bills

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s full committee markup of 12 pieces of legislation.
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E&C Announces Two Legislative Hearings in December Focused on Big Tech Accountability

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today announced two legislative hearings for next month on Wednesday, Dec. 1, and Thursday, December 9, focused on legislation to hold Big Tech accountable.
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Pallone Opening Remarks at Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Securing America’s Clean Energy Supply Chain

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint Energy Subcommittee and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Securing America’s Future: Supply Chain Solutions for a Clean Energy Economy:"
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Lawmakers Request Biden Administration to Brief Congress on Sweeping, Cure-Killing Provisions and Their Costs

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Lawmakers are urging the Biden Administration to provide greater information and analysis in their rush towards a drug pricing scheme that would dramatically change how the United States pays for drugs and upend the incentives that exist today for innovation and generic and biosimilar competition.
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Leaders McKinley and Upton Opening Remarks in Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Energy Supply Chains

News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a joint Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change and Subcommittee on Energy hearing on supply chains for renewable energy sources, Republican Leaders David B. McKinley (R-WV) and Fred Upton (R-MI) spoke about the need to secure American energy and its supply chains.
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