Trump has proposed gutting a rule requiring the coal industry, among others, to consider the impact of burning fossil fuels on climate change
an activist in Port Arthur, Texas, who has spent decades combating pollution from the petrochemical industry in his community, said weakening the law would have serious real-world consequences. “The Trump administration is doing a serious injustice to people living in industrial communities,” Kelley said in an interview of the effort to scale back the bedrock environmental policy. “It’s a matter of life and death.
Nobody tells Donald Trump who he can and cannot go to war with, especially not the people working for the branch of government expressly designed to doThe House passed a war powers resolution Thursday seeking to limit President Trump’s ability to take military action against Iran without congressional approval. The 224 to 194 vote fell largely along party lines, with only three Republicans and Republican-turned-independent.
The vote comes just a day after the administration’s top national security officials met with lawmakers behind closed doors to discuss the intelligence and decision-making that informed Trump’s order to kill top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, who was responsible for the deaths of more than 600 U.S. troops since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
...the critical forum is the Senate, where Democrats are in the minority and will need the help of at least four Republicans to pass a similar war powers resolution from Sen. Tim Kaine , which could come up for a vote as early as next week. Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Rand Paul committed to supporting Kaine’s resolution upon exiting the administration’s briefing Wednesday, after administration officials failed to specify when, if ever, they might seek Congress’s approval for military strike.
Procedurally, it is likely that the House will have to take up the Senate’s resolution, should it pass in that Chamber, in order to send Trump a war powers resolution that has the weight of potential law. It is also extremely likely that the president will veto it — and that Congress will not be able to muster the votes to override that veto.
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