What the new $1.1 trillion spending bill means for the earth.

Democrats successfully blocked a number of proposed anti-environment measures from making it into the final version. But overall, the so-called "cromnibus" bill gives serious short shrift to environmental policy by slashing the EPA's budget by more than $60 milllion, blocking regulations on gassy cows (the primary source of methane emissions), and barring protections for the endangered sage grouse. New York Times