House approves funding bill slashing EPA budget to 1990 levels, expanding domestic energy production

  • Bias Rating

    62% Very Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    52% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    28% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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"It is significant because EPA grew significantly, and it received tens of billions of dollars in the last few years, Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital in an interview."
Positive
28% Conservative
"And it'd be nice if they followed the law."
Positive
20% Conservative
"But when they decide not to follow the law, then, as a guardian of taxpayer dollars, I think 40"
Positive
10% Conservative
"And I think it protects, what I would say is commonsense regulation, clean air and clean water without doing harm."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The bill further prohibits EPA from imposing mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure-management systems and from implementing permitting requirements for livestock emissions under the Clean Air Act."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"This bill does just that by reining in the Environmental Protection Agency, fighting the misguided Obama-era Waters of the United States rule, and barring an Endangered Species Act listing of the greater sage grouse."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"Zinke, who served as Interior secretary during the Trump administration, also lauded the appropriation bill's DOI-related provisions."
Positive
34% Conservative
"Zinke, who served as Interior secretary during the Trump administration, also lauded the appropriation bill's DOI-related provisions."
Positive
34% Conservative
"It is significant because EPA grew significantly, and it received tens of billions of dollars in the last few years, Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital in an interview."
Positive
16% Conservative
"I am pleased to see the House pass my Interior and Environment Appropriations bill, and I thank my colleagues for their support of this fiscally responsible legislation, said Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, the chairman of the House Appropriation Committee's Interior and Environment Subcommittee."
Positive
18% Conservative
"The bill would provide the DOI and its subagencies with a budget of $14.3 billion, $677 million below FY23 levels and $3.4 billion below President Biden's request for FY24."
Positive
16% Conservative
"It's a threat to our nation's energy independence and our national security, Boebert told Fox News Digital in an interview."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Biden has declared an all-out war on our energy industry here in America and has surrendered our energy independence."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The bill further includes several other provisions reigning in specific actions the DOI has taken during the Biden administration as part of the president's sweeping climate agenda."
Positive
4% Conservative
"In one example, the bill would, under an amendment introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., and passed Thursday evening via voice vote, block the Bureau of Land Management from enforcing its draft resource management plan to end new oil leases across 1.6 million acres in Colorado.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPIn August, the agency proposed the plan to lock up the vast area in western Colorado in response to multiple legal challenges filed by environmental groups."
Positive
2% Conservative
"It holds the administration accountable, Zinke continued."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The White House threatened this week to veto the legislation -- which just one Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, voted for -- and said Republicans were wasting time with it."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"This bill does just that by reining in the Environmental Protection Agency, fighting the misguided Obama-era Waters of the United States rule, and barring an Endangered Species Act listing of the greater sage grouse."
Negative
-38% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : "It is significant because EPA grew significantly, and it received tens of billions of dollars in the last few years," Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., told Fox News Digital in an interview.
60% : "And it'd be nice if they followed the law.
55% : But when they decide not to follow the law, then, as a guardian of taxpayer dollars, I think 40% is probably appropriate.
54% : ""And I think it protects, what I would say is commonsense regulation, clean air and clean water without doing harm.
37% : The bill further prohibits EPA from imposing mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from manure-management systems and from implementing permitting requirements for livestock emissions under the Clean Air Act.
23% : "This bill does just that by reining in the Environmental Protection Agency, fighting the misguided Obama-era Waters of the United States rule, and barring an Endangered Species Act listing of the greater sage grouse.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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