"Green groups celebrated Republican leadership’s decision to pull an Interior and Environment spending bill amid a raucous debate over the Confederate flag on Thursday.

Environmentalists had deeply opposed the GOP’s $30.17 billion spending bill because of several climate and environmental provisions in it. A Republican amendment to undo anti-Confederate flag language adopted earlier this week imperiled the bill on Thursday, and Republican leadership pulled it from the floor before members could vote on it.

'House Republican leadership has turned this important appropriations legislation into a toxic mess, again proving they are fully out of step with the American people,' Sierra Club legislative director Melinda Pierce said."

Devin Henry reports for The Hill July 9, 2015. [2]