Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Senators want to address ‘forever chemicals’ pollution, but activists aren't sold on the push A bipartisan pair of senators is working on what they see as a compromise to address a persistent pollution problem, but their draft bill...
A Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in Michigan said Wednesday he rejected a $20 million offer to drop out of his race and challenge Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for her House seat. “I didn’t intend for a private phone call to turn public,” Hill Harper posted to X, the platform formerly known as...
The deal reached by Israel and Hamas to release 50 hostages in exchange for a pause in fighting marks one of the most significant developments in the more than six-week war. But the implementation of the deal, set to go into effect Thursday morning local time, is taking place amid intense distrust, skepticism and concern....
Tall, slim, silver-haired, bespectacled, and bow-tied, he walked the halls of Congress at a fast gait, certain of where he was going, never late. He was Tom Bliley, chairman of the House Committee on Commerce from 1995-1999. Mr. Bliley passed away recently. It would be an understatement to say that Chairman Bliley was a master...
Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability The Big Story Dems’ climate bill has been a boon to planet-heating fossil fuels: report The Democrats' signature climate plan is helping to unleash a flood of fossil fuels onto world markets — even as American consumers increasingly turn away from those products, according to...
President Biden on Wednesday spoke with Argentina’s president-elect, Javier Milei, to congratulate the right-wing populist on his win over the weekend, the White House said. Biden talked with Milei to "to congratulate him on his election," according to a readout of the call. The U.S. president "applauded the conduct of the election” in Argentina as...