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Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks at a hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Environmental justice groups spend Biden aid on payroll, trips, rap song

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the sun sets, near Emmett, Kan., Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Supreme Court appears skeptical of EPA’s ‘good neighbor’ rule on power plant pollution

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Work continues to clean and replace fill dirt at the site of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Daily life largely returned to normal for residents of East Palestine, Ohio, months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that caught fire a year ago, but the worries and fears are always there. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden is going to the site of last year’s train derailment in Ohio. Republicans say he took too long

By Josh Boak - Associated Press

Stopping the electric vehicle (EV) mandate illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Protecting consumer choice and standing up to Biden’s EV mandate

By Rep. Troy Balderson

AES Indiana Petersburg Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant, operates in Petersburg, Ind., on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Biden officials warned against EPA’s plan to ban fossil fuels from electrical grid

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

An HSUS Animal Rescue Team member carries a beagle into the organization's care and rehabilitation center in Maryland on Thursday, July 21, 2022, after the organization removed the first 201 beagles as part of a transfer plan from Envigo RMS LLC facility in Cumberland, Va. The Humane Society of the United States says it has removed the last group of beagles from a troubled breeding facility in Virginia that had planned to sell the dogs to animal testing labs. The organization said it took away the remaining 312 dogs at the facility in Cumberland on Thursday, Sept. 1. (Kevin Wolf/AP Images for the HSUS) **FILE**

Trump put EPA on course to end animal testing; Biden has started it up again

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, right, and Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan, left, after signing an executive order that would create the White House Office of Environmental Justice in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EPA shielding how groups spent Biden’s cash bonanza for environmental justice

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi attends a speech by President Joe Biden about supply chain issues in the Indian Treaty Room on the White House complex in Washington, Nov. 27, 2023. The Biden administration has issued a final rule aimed at reducing methane emissions, targeting the US oil and natural gas industry for its role in global warming. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden rule aims to reduce methane emissions, targeting U.S. oil and gas industry for global warming

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa shows the screen of a Unitronics device that was hacked in Aliquippa, Pa., on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. The hacked device was in a pumping booster station owned by the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa. An electronic calling card left by the hackers suggests they picked their target because it uses components made by an Israeli company. (Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa via AP)

Breaches by Iran-affiliated hackers spanned multiple U.S. states, federal agencies say

Associated Press

Lead water pipes pulled from underneath the street are seen in Newark, N.J., Oct. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Biden administration proposes biggest changes to lead pipe rules in more than three decades

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media before boarding Air Force One in Norfolk, Va., Nov. 19, 2023. Biden declared an emergency over lead contamination in the U.S. Virgin Islands water after tests on St. Croix revealed levels more than 100 times the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Biden declares emergency over lead in water in U.S. Virgin Islands

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at the University of Maryland, May 11, 2023, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard) **FILE**

Biden doles out $2 billion for climate justice amid spending battle with Republicans

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

EPA Red Tape and Environmental Justice Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden EPA’s overreach imperils U.S. economy

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Julann Spromberg, a research toxicologist with Ocean Associates Inc., working under contract with NOAA Fisheries, observes a salmon placed in a tank of clear water after it died from four hours of exposure to unfiltered highway runoff water on Oct. 20, 2014. The Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 2, 2023, granted a petition submitted by Native American tribes in California and Washington state asking federal regulators to prohibit the use of the chemical 6PPD in tires due to its lethal effect on salmon, steelhead trout, and other wildlife. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes

By Mark Thiessen - Associated Press

In this June 29, 2020, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

States ask Supreme Court to halt feds’ ‘Good Neighbor’ emissions plans

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at the University of Maryland, May 11, 2023, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard) **FILE**

Biden’s rules on clean cars face a crucial test as Republican-led challenges go to an appeals court

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

FILE - A road bisects a wetland on June 20, 2019, near Kulm, N.D. States and Native American tribes will have greater authority to block energy projects such as natural gas pipelines that could pollute rivers and streams under a final rule issued Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, by the Biden administration. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Biden administration restores the power of states and tribes to review projects to protect waterways

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan speaks at the University of Maryland, May 11, 2023, in College Park, Md. The EPA is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone — better known as smog — despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Environmental Protection Agency delays new ozone pollution standards until after the 2024 election

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

A road bisects a wetland on June 20, 2019, near Kulm, N.D. A federal judge on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, temporarily blocked a federal rule in 24 states that is intended to protect thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways throughout the nation. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Biden forced to scale back federal jurisdiction over waterways following Supreme Court ruling

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Workmen prepare to replace older water pipes with a new copper one in Newark, N.J., Oct. 21, 2021. As the Biden administration makes billions of dollars available to remove millions of dangerous lead water pipes that can contaminate drinking water and damage brain development in children, some states are turning down funds. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Some states reject federal money to find and replace dangerous lead pipes

By Michael Phillis - Associated Press