POLITICO MORNING ENERGY: DERA ON THE REBOUND

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers on Friday reintroduced a bill to reauthorize EPA’s Diesel Emissions Reduction program, which pays to upgrade older polluting diesel engines, through 2029. The Senate passed a bipartisan bill — sponsored by now-EPW Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va) — to reauthorize the program last year, but the House never took it up.

DERA is one of the programs with bipartisan support that was frozen by EPA until late February. The House bill is backed by Reps. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.), Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Nick Langworthy (R-N.Y.).

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