Ahead of the International Energy Agency’s Ministerial in Paris, which serves as a lead-up to the COP21 UN Climate Negotiations, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) this week released the 2015 Revolution…Now report, which details the state of several clean energy technologies in the U.S. that provide technology solutions to climate change.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed two resolutions, H.J. Res 71 and H.J. Res 72, to “keep electricity affordable and reliable for ratepayers across the country.” The resolutions, introduced by Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), would provide Congressional disapproval on two final rules issued by the EPA for new and existing fossil fuel-fired power plants, and that the rules shall have no force or effect.

The US Senate has voted 52-46 for a measure that would block President Barack Obama’s highest-profile climate regulation, a symbolic rebuke less than two weeks before he is due to travel to Paris for negotiations on a major global warming deal.

Erie biodiesel producer Lake Erie Biofuels LLC d/b/a HERO BX announced this week that it has acquired the assets of the former Veros Energy biodiesel refinery in Moundville, Ala.. The plant will be operated under the name HERO BX Alabama LLC.

Last week, the DEP concluded its series of public hearings for reactions and comments on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. DEP Secretary John Quigley said the state is close to writing a first draft of its proposal to meet the requirements of the Clean Power Plan. He noted that Pennsylvania’s plan will be better than the model federal plan EPA presented in Pittsburgh last week, one that takes away state flexibility.

The DEP last week released the 355-page first draft of the Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force report and opened a 30-day public comment period that ends December 14. The draft report is the first product of Governor Wolf’s Pipeline Infrastructure Task Force (PITF), chaired by DEP Secretary John Quigley.