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Sara Wyant

Sara Wyant

Sara Wyant
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House and Senate transportation leaders press DOT on impeding GHG emissions measure

07/05/17 3:34 AM By Sara Wyant
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2017 - Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Peter DeFazio, ranking Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao requesting information on the agency’s recent action to indefinitely delay provisions of a final rule requiring states to track on-road greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Trump pledges to rebuild rural America

06/21/17 11:00 PM By Sara Wyant
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, June 21, 2017 – President Donald Trump toured the precision agriculture training program at Kirkwood Community College here today before delivering optimistic campaign-style speeches that embraced farmers and ranchers as the “backbone of America.”
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To Russia with renewables? Not so fast…..

06/21/17 10:00 AM By Sara Wyant
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2017 - With Russia serving as one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of oil and gas and a renewed focused on improving domestic food supplies, it shouldn’t exactly be a surprise that biofuels have an insignificant share in the overall energy production matrix of that country.
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Trump expected to decide on Paris climate accord this week

05/31/17 11:53 AM By Sara Wyant
President Donald Trump met with foreign leaders at the G-7 last week to discuss a wide range of topics but there was one issue where he left them guessing: the Paris Accord. He offered to consider their advice, but left the meeting without signing a joint statement that expressed support for the Paris agreement on climate change.
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