Items Tagged with 'Senate Environment and Public Works'

Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman said he’d be happy to put an authorization provision for year-round E15 in an upcoming farm bill, but he closed the door on including a delay for a SNAP cost-share requirement.

The Senate has advanced a bill that would reauthorize a slate of conservation grant programs that fund Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts, assistance for producers that lose livestock to endangered predators, and wetlands conservation projects.

Legal experts gave senators conflicting views Wednesday on whether the Supreme Court’s Sackett decision is consistent with the science around the connectivity of waters.

Members of the Senate will begin returning to Capitol Hill for hearings this week after the August recess, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack travels to Cornell University for an agriculture seminar.

Senators and witnesses at a hearing Wednesday expressed sharp differences over the need for – and impacts of – a potential national low carbon fuel standard.