Committee Releases FY24 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill Republicans

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• Why Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2003 tabloid deal came up at Trump’s hush-money trial
• Time to get real on the bullet train: California is building it, so let’s make it work
• Report urges Metropolitan Water District to abandon Newsom’s $16-billion delta tunnel plan
• House Passes Energy and Water Development FY24 Spending Bill
• Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback
• House Republicans Pass Fiscal Year 2024 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill

The one-time grants are available to Edison customers who meet the program’s income limits. To apply, contact one of the more than 80 community service agencies listed by the fund online, including Chinatown Service Center, San Pedro Service Center and multiple branches of the Salvation Army. Tens of thousands of Angelenos are getting some relief from the state for their past-due electric and gas bills, just as huge new bills for natural gas service are landing in their mailboxes. Should the Oct. 1 deadline pass without either a new set of spending bills or a continuing resolution, operations considered nonessential would be forced to shut down. The most recent such shutdown lasted 35 days, from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019. Most federal spending, including spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment compensation and other entitlement programs, is mandated by the statutes governing those programs.

Why Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2003 tabloid deal came up at Trump’s hush-money trial

In addition to funding critical programs across the country, the federal bill secures $132.8 million for rural water projects, $344 million for state and community energy programs, like weatherization assistance, and investments in important energy security development. In addition, the legislation would repeal funding for Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) programs to improve the energy efficiency of homes and other buildings. The bill would rescind $4.5 billion in rebates for new electric appliances or home electrification projects; $1 billion to help states and local governments adopt tougher building energy codes; and $200 million to train workers to conduct home efficiency and electrification projects.

Time to get real on the bullet train: California is building it, so let’s make it work

Tall order for lawmakers to finish spending bills next week - Roll Call

Tall order for lawmakers to finish spending bills next week.

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Democrats leading California’s Senate and Assembly on Monday announced a legislative state budget deal, but they remain at odds with Gov. Gavin Newsom over his sweeping plan to streamline major infrastructure projects and reduce environmental litigation delays. The first such omnibus measure was passed in 1950 as a one-off experiment, and the tactic was used a couple of times in the mid-1980s. However, omnibus bills have become much more frequent in the past two decades. In all but two fiscal years since 2007, in fact, all or nearly all of the regular appropriations bills were combined into such after-deadline package deals.

5 things to watch as lawmakers finalize fiscal 2024 bills - E&E News by POLITICO

5 things to watch as lawmakers finalize fiscal 2024 bills.

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Report urges Metropolitan Water District to abandon Newsom’s $16-billion delta tunnel plan

There’s $5 billion for the Environmental Protection Agency to hold corporations to their stated claims to reduce pollution from their operations. In a sharp departure from Republican doctrine, the bill allocates $365 million to NASA for research in Earth science, meaning global warming. That sum, moreover, is to be expended over five years, making the average cost of new spending $110 billion a year, or a bit over 2.5% more than federal spending in 2019. Conservatives’ claims that this bill will break the bank are plainly hogwash. That said, the Democratic Party now faces the task of communicating to voters how much it has done for them.

Senate approves Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill with funds for California

It’s about improving people’s lives no matter how that happens, and it’s well past time for the change. The $1.2-trillion infrastructure package just passed by Congress and awaiting President Biden’s signature shows that the term needs updating. The measure does provide billions for those traditional purposes, as well as other enhancements to our physical surroundings. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water management in the West, will ultimately decide what projects get funded. But there is a relatively small universe of water projects that will be eligible, and many of them are in California, giving the state a leg up.

Such mandatory spending is estimated to total nearly $3.98 trillion in the current fiscal year, or 62.4% of all federal outlays. The legislative session had come to a close in Sacramento, and elected officials had approved a whole bunch of climate change, energy and environment bills — and rejected others. Although not a few worthwhile projects fell away before the final version was passed, the result is spectacular. Biden describes some provisions as “human infrastructure,” some of which have been held over for the Build Back Better bill still on the table in Congress. More than $3.3 billion would fund wildfire risk reduction, such as mechanical thinning and controlled burns.

After a budget resolution is adopted, Congress is supposed to pass a series of separate bills funding various federal agencies and activities. For more than a decade, the number of spending bills has stood at 12, one for each pair of subcommittees on the House and Senate appropriations committees. The deadline for doing that is Oct. 1, when the new fiscal year starts. Ahead of final passage, the House adopted several amendments, including measures to block finalizing energy conservation standards for consumer furnaces and water heaters. Another amendment would prohibit consideration of the government's social cost of greenhouse gases when developing agency budgets, federal procurement processes or environmental reviews. California agencies and nonprofits will receive more than $100 million in federal Inflation Reduction Act funding to plant trees — many of them in the low-income neighborhoods and communities of color suffering the most as the planet heats up.

House Republicans Pass Fiscal Year 2024 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill

"We want to see businesses and individuals feel like they can clear the plate and not stress out about COVID long after it's gone because they're carrying debt with their utility," Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday. "So the weight that's now been lifted off the shoulders of Angelenos, the opportunities to move forward that have now opened up, is what we're celebrating today." Asked whether local MPs on the panel - Conservative Lia Nici and Labour's Melanie Onn - could change her mind, Shannon said "possibly", but reiterated how let down local people feel. Speaking on the Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge, small business owner Shannon said she might not vote in the next general election later this year as she "just can't trust anything anybody says".

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The Build Back Better program cancels any existing drilling leases and orders any payments made by the lessees to be returned to them within 30 days. The totals in this category are hard to calculate, because the spending is distributed among several sections and subsections. But the Biden administration broadens the definition of infrastructure to include means to combat global warming, to strengthen labor laws and privacy protections, to prepare for the next pandemic (or pandemics), and to stop tax cheating by wealthy Americans. This legislation takes the vital step of ending the Biden Administration's Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, empowering states to manage waterways historically outside federal control.

The Legislature has less than two months to pass these bills and send them to the governor’s desk. Newsom introduced a series of budget bills related to infrastructure last month after lawmakers had already wrapped up committee hearings on spending proposals. Fellow Democrats have criticized the governor over the late-arriving legislation and expressed concern about not having sufficient time to consider potential impacts on communities and the environment. He writes the twice-weekly Boiling Point newsletter and focuses on clean energy solutions. He previously reported for the Desert Sun and USA Today, where he covered renewable energy and public lands. He grew up in Westwood and would very much like to see the Dodgers win the World Series again.

Eastern Kentucky gains important funding in the bill, including Congressman Rogers' Community Project Funding request for $500,000 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study flood control options along the Kentucky River, following historic flooding in the region in 2022 and 2021. House Democrats were united in their opposition, voting unanimously against the bill.

There had been mounting tensions between the largest party at Holyrood and their junior partners in government. The Bute House Agreement - signed back in 2021 and named after the first minister's official residence in Edinburgh - brought the Green Party into government for the first time anywhere in the UK. The backlash has plunged Mr Yousaf's future into doubt, although party colleagues insist he will not resign. The SNP leader triggered a crisis at Holyrood after he dramatically brought the power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens to an end. Humza Yousaf's future as first minister is hanging in the balance ahead of a motion of no confidence next week.

Funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act and the state allowed the program to eliminate utility debt from 280,000 households and businesses in Los Angeles, officials said Wednesday. An earlier version of the program also used $50 million through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Best of all, economists agree that because of the way the Superfund is designed, Big Oil companies will not be able to pass on the costs to consumers. The oil companies know this, and that’s why they strongly oppose Superfund while supporting carbon pricing plans, like the governor’s Cap & Invest program, that are designed to allow them to pass costs along. The Climate Change Superfund Act would save New Yorkers $3 billion per year for the next 25 years. Currently, taxpayers, businesses, and individuals are paying 100% of the costs of repairing from, and preparing for, extreme weather events driven by climate change.