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Tracking Committee Leaders for 115th Congress [1]

To help keep tabs on the newly seated 115th Congress and its gate-keepers of energy and environment law, the latest TipSheet offers a checklist of committee leadership. Plus, a closer look at three key Senate panels, likely agendas and new leadership, such as Senate Energy Committee Chair John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (shown in photo).

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Agriculture [3]
Climate Change [4]
Energy & Fuel [5]
Environmental Politics [6]
Government [7]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Natural Resources [9]
Policy [10]
Pollution [11]
Waste [12]
Water & Oceans [13]
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"Can A Joint US-Russian Research Team Protect Alaska's Polar Bears?" [16]

"A 2000 treaty committed the two nations to study and conserve their polar bears. Even as political tensions rise, climate change and other pressures make their work more necessary than ever."

Climate Change [4]
Environmental Politics [6]
Wildlife [17]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Europe [18]
Source: Christian Science Monitor [19], 01/17/2017

Unlike Trump, Americans Want Strong Environmental Regulator - Poll [20]

"More than 60 percent of Americans would like to see the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's powers preserved or strengthened under incoming President Donald Trump, and the drilling of oil on public lands to hold steady or drop, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday."

Environmental Politics [6]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Reuters [21], 01/17/2017

"Republican Who Led EPA Urges Confronting Trump on Climate" [22]

"William K. Reilly, who was head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush, is blunt in his assessment of the climate change deniers and anti-regulatory hawks who have been nominated to fill many of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s top environmental posts. Reilly, a Republican, looks with special alarm upon Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, nominated to run the EPA."

Environmental Politics [6]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: YaleE360 [23], 01/17/2017

Interior Nominee Promotes Navy SEAL Career, Playing Down ‘Bad Judgment’ [24]

"In his successful runs for state senator in Montana and then for Congress, Representative Ryan Zinke has promoted his 23-year career in the Navy SEALs as one of his main credentials, going so far as to put the SEALs’ Trident symbol on his campaign bus."

Environmental Politics [6]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NY Times [25], 01/17/2017

"Ringling Bros. Circus Folding Its Tent After Nearly 150 Years" [26]

"The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus said on Saturday it will cease performances after 146 years in business, owing to what it said were declining tickets sales and high operating costs."

Wildlife [17]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Reuters [27], 01/16/2017

"A Big Test for Big Batteries" [28]

"In Southern California in the fall of 2015, a giant natural gas leak not only caused one of the worst environmental disasters in the nation’s history, it also knocked out a critical fuel source for regional power plants. Energy regulators needed a quick fix."

Energy & Fuel [5]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NY Times [29], 01/16/2017

"EPA Defies Automakers by Keeping Efficiency Standards Intact" [30]

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it’s keeping vehicle efficiency standards intact through the 2025 model year, shoring up a key piece of President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy against a challenge by the incoming administration."

Air [31]
Climate Change [4]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Pollution [11]
Transportation [32]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: Bloomberg [33], 01/16/2017

"Poison Fruit" [34]

"Dow Chemical Wants Farmers to Keep Using a Pesticide Linked to Autism and ADHD".

Agriculture [3]
Chemicals [35]
Environmental Health [36]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: The Intercept [37], 01/16/2017

Scott Pruitt, Trump’s EPA Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators [38]

"A legal fight to clean up tons of chicken manure fouling the waters of Oklahoma’s bucolic northeastern corner — much of it from neighboring Arkansas — was in full swing six years ago when the conservative lawyer Scott Pruitt took office as Oklahoma’s attorney general. His response: Put on the brakes."

Environmental Politics [6]
Laws & Regulations [8]
Public [15]
National (U.S.) [14]
Source: NY Times [39], 01/16/2017

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