Climate change on front burner after 8 years of GOP rule
For the first time in years, the House will hold two congressional hearings on fighting climate change this week, breaking with the skepticism that prevailed during the past eight years of GOP leadership.
The simultaneous 10 a.m. hearings Wednesday in neighboring Capitol Hill buildings represent an unprecedented push by the new Democratic majority to put climate front and center in their agenda after Republican resistance to policies that would regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
The events in the Energy and Commerce and the Natural Resources committees — the panels that oversee the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Interior Department, respectively — will be the first hearing for both committees in the 116th Congress.
Dan Lashof, U.S. director for the World Resources Institute, said the timing is notable, both for the messaging strategy and the policy implications.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/428453-climate-change-on-front-burner-after-8-years-of-gop-rule
