Likely GOP Senate Environment Panel Shuffle Spurs Policy Questions

Expectations that Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) will take over as the top Republican next year on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee that oversees EPA is prompting questions about how such a committee shuffle could affect environment policy. Capito, who is currently chairwoman of EPW’s air subcommittee, is expected to take over as the top Republican on EPW, sources say, after current Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) takes over as the top Republican on the Energy & Natural...