By EPA Newswire | Jan 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy requesting an urgent briefing in the coming days on the drinking water in Flint, Michigan. In April 2014, the city of Flint switched from water provided by the Detroit water system...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the president’s State of the Union address, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) welcomed the call for a “moon shot" to cure cancer. Prior to the speech, Upton huddled with Vice President Joe Biden discussing that we were well on the #Path2Cures with H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today issued the following statement after the administration announced a plan to reform the way coal is leased and managed on federal lands.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) welcomed today’s announcement by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and leading automakers on a path forward to improve #Safety4Drivers.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) issued the following statement today in response to the “Proactive Safety Principles " released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced that the committee’s comprehensive review on concussions will commence with a roundtable discussion on Monday, January 25. The roundtable, which will bring together experts from the medical, military, athletic, and research communities, will serve as a launching pad for the committee’s review to study the causes, effects, and treatments of concussions and other head trauma.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today commented on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement regarding a breakthrough in automotive safety innovation - autonomous, or self-driving vehicles.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today expressed concern with a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) that examined the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) response to a recent pig disease outbreak. Outbreaks of Swine Enteric Coronavirus Diseases (SECD) beginning in the spring of 2013 led to the deaths of millions of pigs in the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: Late last year the president finally said #Yes2Energy and signed into law a provision lifting the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. Lifting the ban was a priority for the Energy and Commerce Committee and the House passed legislation, H.R. 702, authored by Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX), and...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), are still waiting for answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Subcommittee members posed several dozen questions to CMS Deputy Administrator Vikki Wachino...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today requested the nonpartisan watchdog Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) role in assisting states transitioning from a state-based information technology...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives on Monday approved bipartisan legislation to protect children from exposure to e-liquids containing nicotine, which are used in e-cigarettes and other e-smoking applications. S. 142, the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act, is companion legislation to...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after President Obama’s final State of the Union address...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today reviewed four proposals that would protect consumers and small businesses.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives on Monday approved bipartisan legislation to protect children from exposure to e-liquids containing nicotine which are used in e-cigarettes and other e-smoking applications. S. 142, the Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act, is companion legislation to...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a legislative hearing examining committee member Rep. Renee Ellmers’ (R-NC) H.R. __, the EPS Improvement Act of 2016. This bipartisan legislation would exclude certain lighting technologies, namely drivers...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today was encouraged by Vice President Biden’s ongoing efforts to bring cures to patients with rare diseases. According to reports, the Vice President’s staff recently met with cancer experts as part of his “moon shot" to cure cancer and the plan is to be announced in President Obama’s State of the Union address tomorrow.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced a series of staff changes for the committee, including welcoming a new Chief Counsel for the Health Subcommittee after the departure of longtime aide Clay Alspach. Paul Edattel, who recently returned to the Energy and Commerce Committee after a brief stint with Speaker John Boehner, will assume the chief counsel position.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of January 11.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking answers from the agencies regarding the ongoing methane leak in Southern California.
