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EPA: Bill To Block Clean-Air Regs Advances in House

A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee has approved a measure that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from moving forward with greenhouse-gas regulations under the Clean Air Act. The bill, sponsored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), cleared a subcommittee of his panel on March 10. In the Senate, James Inhofe (R-Okla.) has introduced a companion bill.

Pam Hunter McFarland was a Senior Editor of ENR and her expertise was: Sourcebooks, Environment, Labor

As ENR's former Washington Bureau Chief, Tom Ichniowski wrote about the federal government since the George H.W. Bush administration, and covered at least five major highway bills. A recognized expert on government policy on infrastructure and regulation, Tom is also a Baltimore native and Orioles fan who grew up rooting for Brooks and Frank Robinson. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia’s graduate school of journalism, where he once used “unrelentless” in a headline.

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