By Nick Juliano, E&E
Lawmakers return to the Capitol today for a marathon session that could see Senate action on energy efficiency legislation and clean power tax credits alongside continued appropriations work in both chambers, potential enactment of a new water infrastructure law and plenty of opportunities for political point-scoring as November looms in members’ minds.
Relatively few marquee items are on the agenda in the coming days for energy and environmental policy watchers, but action is likely to heat up toward the end of this week or early next week in the Senate. The upper chamber is expected to focus first on legislation to increase the minimum wage — bolstering majority Democrats’ election-year messaging — but next in line could be the bipartisan energy bill Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) have been pushing for years.