Senate Democrats’ Bill Raises Pressure On EPA Over Crypto Emissions

Senate Democrats are raising the pressure on EPA to measure and track the emissions associated with cryptocurrency mining operations, offering a bill that seeks to force the agency to gather such data even as the agency has previously acknowledged it already has authority to require reporting of such data. At a March 7 hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s (EPW) clean air and climate panel, Democrats also made the case for the industry to convert to far...