Senate Panel Speeds Action On Highway Bill With Landmark Climate Title

The Senate Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee is accelerating its plan to advance a bipartisan transportation funding bill with a first-ever climate change title along with permit streamlining provisions, moving up its planned markup from Aug. 1 to July 30, just one day after the bill was introduced. The fact that the committee is speeding the markup suggests that there will be little opposition from committee members ahead of a weeks-long congressional recess. But the measure is likely to...