Republicans Signal Push To Cut Administration's Climate Budget Request

As lawmakers begin to hold hearings on the administration's fiscal year 2017 budget request, top Republicans are uniformly signaling plans to slash key climate and clean energy provisions from the next fiscal year spending plan and, in some cases, to rescind some already appropriated funds. So far, lawmakers have targeted various FY17 climate funding requests from the Energy (DOE), State and Interior Departments, though EPA -- whose various greenhouse gas and other rules are at the heart of the administration's...