Author: Jan Pytalski

House Dems Looking to Restore Obama-era Policies on Public Land Oil & Gas Leases

The Democratically controlled House of Representatives is continuing its push to essentially reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of environmental regulations, this time focusing on a policy that has largely impacted rural and native populations in the U.S. The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held its third hearing last […]

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Will Superfood Pancakes Solve the Opioid Crisis?

Last week, Axios announced the latest in a series of D.C. conversations that have become somewhat of a staple in the Capital. This week, they hosted what was billed as a conversation on the nation’s “biggest health care issues and how to tackle them,” pointing specifically to the opioid epidemic […]

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Where is Rural in the Green New Deal?

Among the packed agenda of the 2019 Democrat-held House, one particular project went from barely noticed to hotly debated almost overnight: The Green New Deal (GND). The deal is an ambitious social, economic and industrial reform program being proposed as a potential catch-all solution to current climate change regulations and […]

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Federal Shutdown Leaves Appalachians Wondering about Impacts on Agriculture, Environment

Update Jan. 25, 2019, 2:59 p.m.: After 35 days of the partial government shutdown, President Trump announced from the Rose Garden at the White House that he will sign a legislation reopening the government until February 15. President stressed that he is still committed to obtaining the funding for the wall on the southern border […]

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