House Vote Possible This Summer on Four Environment Bills: Shimkus

The House could pass four major environmental bills before Congress’s August recess, including one delaying implementation of 2015 ozone standards, a key House Republican told Bloomberg BNA.

Three bills reauthorizing brownfields, drinking water and nuclear waste law could then be attached to any Senate-passed infrastructure bill to reach the president’s desk, said Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Environment. Meanwhile, exploration of other Clean Air Act issues could begin as soon as September, he said.

A “draw [to Republicans] on these authorization bills is the fact that they’re reauthorizations,” Shimkus said in a ...