In This Issue:

- Energy and Environmental Debate

- Congress

- Administration

- Department of Energy

- Environmental Protection Agency

- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

- Nuclear Regulatory Commission

- International

- States

- Miscellaneous

- Excerpt from Energy and Environmental Debate:

Congress is in Washington this week for an intense few days before recessing until after the November elections.

The House will vote September 17 on the continuing resolution (H.J. Res. 124). Currently, the measure continues a policy provision that overrides Administration guidance limiting the Export-Import Bank from financing overseas coal-fired power projects. The continuing resolution, which would fund the government through December 11, extends the bank’s charter, which expires September 30, until the end of next June. The House had planned to pass the continuing resolution last week, but postponed the vote after President Obama requested approval of authority for aid to Syrian rebels. The chamber is still weighing whether to attach the president’s request to the continuing resolution or to take it up separately. The measure also includes funds to address the Ebola virus and would extend to December 11 a moratorium on taxing Internet access that is scheduled to expire November 1. The Senate will take up the measure shortly thereafter.