E&E Daily http://www.eedaily.com The Premier Information Source for Professionals Who Track Environmental and Energy Policy. en-us Fri Jun 26 09:01:00 EDT 2009 House Democratic leaders appear ready to roll the dice by moving ahead with a floor debate on energy and global warming legislation despite not knowing if they have the 218 votes needed to pass the bill. Emerging shortly after midnight following a more than two-hour meeting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, several top Democrats expressed cautious optimism about their ability to pass the sweeping bill, now called H.R. 2454, that would establish a mandatory cap-and-trade program to curb greenhouse gas emissions. SPOTLIGHT Fri Jun 26 09:01:00 EDT 2009 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2009/06/26/1 The House began debate yesterday on the $32.3 billion spending bill to fund environmental agencies and is expected to approve the measure sometime today. Debate on the measure continued late… ON THE HILL Fri Jun 26 09:01:00 EDT 2009 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2009/06/26/2 Senate appropriators yesterday approved an amendment to a U.S. EPA spending bill that blocks the agency from requiring small farms to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The amendment approved by… ON THE HILL Fri Jun 26 09:01:00 EDT 2009 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2009/06/26/3 The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved a fiscal 2010 spending bill that would provide $11.1 billion for the Interior Department and $5.3 billion for the Forest Service, sending the measure… ON THE HILL Fri Jun 26 09:01:00 EDT 2009 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2009/06/26/4 The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill yesterday that gives a significant boost to federal spending on oceans, fisheries and satellites -- along with a stern rebuke for federal… ON THE HILL Fri Jun 26 09:01:00 EDT 2009 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2009/06/26/5 The practice of blowing the tops off mountains in Appalachia to extract coal reserves inflicts considerable damage to the quality of mountain waterways and warrants greater regulatory scrutiny, experts told… ON THE HILL Fri Jun 26 09:01:00 EDT 2009 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2009/06/26/6