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The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is responsible for legislation and oversight of the natural and built environment and for studying matters concerning environmental protection and resource conservation and utilitization.
The bill was a major pillar of Biden's environmental policy; according to its guidebook issued in 2022, it included over 350 programs, many of which were included in the chapter of "Climate, Energy and the Environment" (pages 149–382), while many others, also related to the environment, were included in all other chapters except "Broadband ...
Democratic Senate leadership and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have reached an agreement to separately reform federal energy permitting in exchange for Manchin’s support for a larger social ...
In political theory, deliberative democracy has been discussed as a political model more compatible with environmental goals. Deliberative democracy is a system in which informed political equals weigh values, information, and expertise, and debate priorities to make decisions, as opposed to a democracy based on interest aggregation. [30]
The Democratic party's foremost environmental concern is climate change. [15] Democrats, most notably former Vice President Al Gore , have pressed for stern regulation of greenhouse gases . On October 15, 2007, Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to build greater knowledge about man-made climate change and laying the foundations for ...
One of the key early successes of the Green Liberal Democrats, and its new Chair, Keith Melton, was to ensure that the preamble to the Liberal Democrat constitution had a key reference to Green issues at the heart of the party with the following sentence appearing immediately after the first paragraph defining Liberal Philosophy - "We believe ...
The administration repealed the Clean Water Rule and rewrote the EPA's pollution-control policies—including policies on chemicals known to be serious health risks—particularly benefiting the chemicals industry, [16] [17] A 2018 analysis reported that the Trump administration's rollbacks and proposed reversals of environmental rules would ...
Andrews, Richard N.L., Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy (Yale UP, 1999) Black, Brian C., and Donna L. Lybecker. Great Debates in American Environmental History (2 vol. Greenwood, 2008), with 150 topics covered in encyclopedic fashion with pro and con arguments. online book review; Bryce, Emma.