In This Issue:

- Energy and Climate Debate

- Congress

- Administration

- Department of Energy

- Department of Interior

- Department of State

- Department of Treasury

- Environmental Protection Agency

- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

- Nuclear Regulatory Commission

- International

- States

- Miscellaneous

- Excerpt from Energy and Climate Debate:

The House returns from a weeklong recess today and joins the Senate in facing a full schedule the next two weeks before departing for the holiday recess.

Committees in both chambers will hold more than 30 fiscal year 2016 appropriations hearings, while the upper chamber will consider nominations and the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 (S. 178) and the lower chamber will begin its week addressing six bills (H.R. 639; 647; 648; 284; 876; and 1191) and on its suspension calendar before moving on to debate the EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 1029), the Secret Science Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 1030), and other measures. Committees in both the House and Senate will hold several energy and environment hearings of note; see more details below.