Energy

GOP’s fiscal 2025 spending bills heavy on climate change riders - Roll Call The first set of House appropriations bills target Biden’s climate agenda, to the chagrin of Democrats and environmental groups. mshaw Roll Call

The House isn’t scheduled to begin work on the lion’s share of fiscal 2025 spending on energy and the environment until July, but the chamber’s initial appropriations bills are already targeting Biden’s climate agenda, drawing rebukes from Democrats and environmental groups.

Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather. AP News

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https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4636172-new-york-cities-blackouts-climate-change-study/

Climate change is pushing some New York City neighborhoods into dozens of nearly daylong blackouts per year, a new study has found.

Large swaths of the state’s principal towns and cities faced repeated, protracted and dangerous weather-driven power outages between 2017 and 2020, according to findings published Wednesday in the Public Library of Science.

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