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Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer may take procedural steps to set up a vote next week on stopgap spending legislation running through Dec. 16.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin III says his long-anticipated bill to streamline energy infrastructure permitting will be released Wednesday and that he hopes Republicans will change their minds about opposing it before it comes up for a vote on a stopgap funding bill next week.

Manchin's outreach "has included companies in the mining, utilities, and oil and gas industry"

WASHINGTON — States would be free to develop energy resources on federal lands within their borders, a series of Trump-era regulations would be set into law and a West Virginia pipeline would be approved under a Republican permitting bill that adds a wrinkle to Democrats’ internal squabble over the same…

WASHINGTON — The EPA has proposed designating two “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances under the Superfund law.

The agency expects to propose national drinking water regulations for the PFAS chemicals later this year, with a final rule expected in 2023.

Last year, the contest got away from Congress’ rookie-heavy softball squad, but this time will be different, players say. 

Two nominees for high-ranking EPA positions are in procedural purgatory as Republicans aim to block their confirmations.

Congress is giving its ultimate salute to Hershel W