Emma Dumain covers Congress for E&E News. A Capitol Hill reporter since 2010, she was most recently a congressional correspondent for McClatchy and, before that, she covered South Carolina politics and the state's congressional delegation for The (Columbia) State newspaper and the Charleston Post and Courier. Emma got her start in journalism at Roll Call and Congressional Quarterly and is a graduate of Oberlin College.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the new top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, is signaling a potentially more bipartisan and less ideological push on energy and environmental issues.
There's still no timetable for Rep. Deb Haaland to be confirmed as the next Interior secretary, but the New Mexico Democrat's congressional chief of staff has already moved over to serve in the same capacity at the federal agency.
Five Senate Republicans are calling on President-elect Joe Biden to allow construction on the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada into the United States to proceed.
President Trump's public lands legacy has been further complicated by a set of actions handed down by the Interior Department with less than 24 hours left to go in his tenure.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt's former press secretary has quit his new job as communications director for freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert within the first two weeks of the 117th Congress.