By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) this afternoon kicked off debate on two resolutions that protect jobs and affordable and reliable energy from the Obama administration’s cap and trade scheme. S.J. Res 23 and S.J. Res 24 (identical to H.J. Res 71 and 72 authored...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing examining the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) current role in regulating electricity markets, and its timeliness as it relates to licensing LNG export facilities, interstate gas...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today kicked off debate on a broad energy bill that modernizes America’s dated energy laws and helps America maximize its energy potential. H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015, authored by...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a legislative package to improve broadband infrastructure and H.R. 1641, the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the EPA issuing its final rule setting out the long-delayed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements for the years 2014 through 2016. In the rule, EPA acknowledged some of the challenges with adding ethanol and other renewable fuels to the nation’s transportation fuel supply, and for this reason the agency reduced the required volumes below those originally set out by law in 2007.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today commending the Obama administration on the launch of Mission Innovation, which represents a landmark commitment by 20 countries and a group of 28 influential investors to accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation over the next five years...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) and Ranking Minority...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are seeking answers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the agency’s plans for continued oversight of Obamacare’s CO-OPs. To date, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed, bringing the total cost to taxpayers at more...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 30.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate leaders today expressed concern after a new report was released by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office on the Homeland Security Department’s BioWatch program. Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee first requested the report in August...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) have introduced the Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2015, which seeks to minimize confusing and misleading information that consumers encounter on food packages.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today commented on the inclusion of additional 3.0 liter diesel engines in the Environmental Protection Agency’s investigation of Volkswagen’s emissions cheating.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members, including every Republican member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and every Republican member of the House Small Business Committee, today wrote to the Federal Communications Commission requesting a permanent exemption...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The effects of climate change are being felt worldwide, impacting every corner of the planet and every sector of the global economy. With the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) just two weeks away, more than 150 countries, representing...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its work to better understand the ways new technologies are disrupting the status quo and impacting jobs and the economy. Adding to the subcommittee’s review of the...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its work on flu preparedness, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing entitled, “U.S. Public Health Preparedness for Seasonal Influenza: Has the Response Improved?" Testifying were officials from the Centers...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today 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 for Congressional disapproval of 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.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unanimously passed S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) and Ranking Minority...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), on Tuesday continued its oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. Members heard from all five FCC commissioners and raised questions on many of the issues before the commission, focusing on process and the effect the FCC’s actions have on innovation, job creation, and consumer access to information.
