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Appropriations The House Appropriations Committee has started marking up and approving its FY22 spending bills with several committees including language on single-use plastic-related in their reports. In its Committee report for the FY22 Financial Services and General Government spending bill, the Committee encouraged the General...

Infrastructure After little progress over the past month, a group of 21 bipartisan senators announced Wednesday evening that they agreed with the White House on a tentative framework for a roughly $1.2 trillion infrastructure package with $579 billion in new spending. The group will be...

Infrastructure President Joe Biden ended negotiations with Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and other Republicans on June 8, after failing to come to a deal on an infrastructure plan that both sides could accept. In a major setback on one of his top agenda priorities,...

Appropriations The House and Senate Appropriations Committees continue to hold hearings on FY2022 budgets. The administration is planning on releasing the President’s $6 trillion FY2022 budget on Friday, May 28. The release will kick off an ambitious House Appropriations Committee markup schedule shaped around recess....

Infrastructure Infrastructure negotiations between the White House and Senate Republicans have seen little progress, though neither side wants to walk away. Lead Republican negotiator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) says she is determined to negotiate a deal but is criticizing White House staff hindering an agreement...

In 1989, countries around the world gathered in Basel, Switzerland, where they would eventually establish an international treaty, known as the Basel Convention, to prevent dumping of wastes in developing countries. The Convention applies restrictions to movements of hazardous (Annex I) and other (Annex II)...

CLEAN Future Act Several committees have started examining the sprawling provisions of the CLEAN Future Act. On May 5, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy held a hearing on the decarbonization of the transportation sector. During the hearing, Ranking Member Fred Upton (R-MI)...

Water Infrastructure On April 29, the Senate approved the bipartisan Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 (S. 914) in an 89-2 vote. The legislation would authorize approximately $35 billion through FY2026 for new and existing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant and financial...