"The Interior and Energy departments will spend the coming months trying to cement some of the White House’s critical energy ambitions, ahead of an election year in which Republicans are likely to attack President Joe Biden’s focus on boosting renewables and cutting planet-warming emissions.
In the semiannual Unified Agenda— released Tuesday — the Biden administration outlines a packed energy policy agenda in the second half of 2023 and early 2024, targeting the natural gas sector with regulations on gas stoves and methane emissions. Federal regulators will also turn their attention to a flurry of other areas, including transmission, heat pumps and protections for the public lands in Alaska, where the White House recently green-lighted a massive oil project.
“We feel this huge sense of urgency,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Tuesday in Port Arthur, Texas, where DOE was hosting an environmental justice event."
Brian Dabbs and Heather Richards report for E&E News June 14, 2023.
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