Kellie Lunney

Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Reporter at Bloomberg Environment

Senior Reporter at Bloomberg Government

Senior reporter @BGOV covering energy and environment on Capitol Hill. Proud Francophile and Empire State native. Born on a cusp. Retweets are not endorsements.

Articles

GOP Environment Panel Bill Would Delay Biden Methane Fee (1)

3 days ago | news.bgov.com | Kellie Lunney |Lillianna Byington

A fee imposed on oil and gas companies flaring excess methane would be paused for 10 years under Republican legislation released in the Senate. The Environment and Public Works Committee made public its portion of the GOP reconciliation bill, which also claws back unobligated money for emissions reduction efforts, under the Senate panel’s jurisdiction provided in Democrats’ 2022 tax-and-climate law. Click here to read the legislation and here for a section-by-section analysis.
Senate Environment Panel Releases Reconciliation Bill Portion

3 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Kellie Lunney |Lillianna Byington

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Wednesday published the text of its GOP tax cuts-and-spending bill. The legislation would pause for a decade the implementation of a fee on methane emissions mandated by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Click here to read the legislation and here for a section-by-section analysis.
Trump Wants to Move Permanent Conservation Funds He Greenlit (2)

5 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Kellie Lunney

June 2, 2025, 6:56 PM UTC; Updated: June 2, 2025, 9:14 PM UTC Grand Canyon National Park in Grand Canyon, Ariz., US, on May 13, 2025. The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request seeks to divert mandatory spending to allow agencies to use the money to make infrastructure and maintenance repairs on federal lands.
Trump Wants to Divert Permanent Conservation Funding He Greenlit

5 days ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Kellie Lunney

June 2, 2025, 6:56 PM UTC Grand Canyon National Park in Grand Canyon, Ariz., US, on May 13, 2025. The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request seeks to divert mandatory spending to allow agencies to use the money to make infrastructure and maintenance repairs on federal lands.
Trump Wants to Move Permanent Conservation Funds He Greenlit (2)

5 days ago | news.bgov.com | Kellie Lunney

Conservationists and sportsmen want Congress to reject a White House budget proposal to shift hundreds of millions of dollars dedicated to protecting public lands and waters into a new deferred maintenance program. The Trump administration’s fiscal 2026 budget request asks lawmakers to divert mandatory spending from part of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to allow agencies to use the money to make infrastructure and maintenance repairs on federal lands.
Trump’s Megabill Faces More Changes as Senate Takes Charge

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Jonathan Tamari |Maeve Sheehey |Erin Durkin |Jack Fitzpatrick |Skye Witley |Oma Seddiq | +3 more

GOP Senators objected to key tax, Medicaid provisionsUpper chamber has less concern for SALT tax deductionNow the Senate has its say. After House Republicans spent weeks piecing together the massive tax and border package that advanced out of the chamber Thursday morning, senators immediately made it clear that for them, it’s just a starting point. “The Senate’s going to want to put its own stamp on this,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) put it more stridently.
California Emissions Vote Upends Pollution Curbs, Congress Rules

2 weeks ago | news.bgov.com | Kellie Lunney |Lillianna Byington

Lawmakers are axing California’s ability to impose tougher auto emissions standards — a move that threatens to upend decades of congressional and legal precedent and derail multiple states’ efforts to curb air pollution. Senate Republicans Thursday rescinded California’s Biden-era authority under the Clean Air Act (H.J.Res. 88) on a 51-44 vote, sending the measure President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. The chamber is poised to vote to rescind two other authorities later in today (H.J.Res.
Calif. Emissions Vote Upends Pollution Curbs, Senate Rules (1)

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Kellie Lunney |Lillianna Byington |Andrew Oxford

Democrats say move guts precedent, endangers host of policiesAbout a dozen states had adopted stricter California standardsLawmakers axed California’s ability to impose tougher auto emissions standards — a move that threatens to scramble decades of congressional and legal precedent and derail multiple states’ efforts to curb air pollution. Senate Republicans Thursday rescinded California’s Biden-era authority under the Clean Air Act in a series of votes (H.J.Res. 88), (H.J.Res. 87, H.J.Res.
Biden California Waiver to Increase Electric Vehicles Scrapped

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Kellie Lunney

A measure rescinding California’s authority to impose strict emissions standards on gasoline cars heads to President Donald Trump to sign into law.
Biden California Waiver to Increase Electric Vehicles Scrapped

2 weeks ago | news.bgov.com | Kellie Lunney

A measure rescinding California’s authority to impose strict emissions standards on gasoline cars heads to President Donald Trump to sign into law. Senate Thursday cleared in a 51-44 vote H.J.Res. 88 to revoke the state’s Biden-era authority granted under the Clean Air Act to curb air pollutionMove invalidates Environmental Protection Agency waiver that allowed California to require all new passenger vehicles sold be zero emissions by 2035Two other measures (H.J.Res. 87, H.J.Res.