By EPA Newswire | Aug 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today wrote to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner as part of the committee’s continuing examination of the implementation of President Obama’s...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today pressed the White House and a former top Obama administration official to clarify contradicting statements regarding the use of personal email...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 6, 2012
News Release: Investor’s Business Daily. Aug. 3, 2012. Editorial. Scandal: The sunlight continues to expose the machinations behind the White House’s support of failed solar panel manufacturer Solyndra with our tax dollars, including IBDthe false claim by former White House chief of staff. In a batch of White House...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 3, 2012
News Release: “Most transparent administration, they thought they were getting clever…" - Sean Hannity
By EPA Newswire | Aug 3, 2012
News Release: Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday refused to comment on a newly released e-mail which again suggests he was involved in the White House decision to promote a $535 million federal loan to Solyndra LLC, a California solar energy equipment company that subsequently went bankrupt.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 3, 2012
News Release: Obama admin. knew was cheaper to cut off Solyndra-Republicans
By EPA Newswire | Aug 3, 2012
News Release: Buried in the treasure trove of White House emails related to Solyndra released Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee is one suggesting that concerns about Solyndra’s viability were shared all the way up to then-White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley a full six months before the company went bust.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Power (112th Congress) . Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) convened a second bipartisan forum on “State, Local and Federal Cooperation under the Clean Air Act.". The forum was intended to provide an opportunity for members of Congress to hear a broad...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today discussed the disparities in energy production on federal vs. non-federal lands, and looked specifically at the adverse impacts President Obama’s policies are having on domestic energy...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney spent much of yesterday dodging questions related to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s report that reveals the Obama administration has repeatedly broken its transparency pledge.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: This morning the House Energy and Commerce Committee released its findings in an exhaustive, 18-month investigation into the Obama administration’s failed $535 million investment in the now-bankrupt California solar panel maker Solyndra. Although the facts reveal Solyndra was a bad bet that never should...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2012
News Release: OhioAmerican Energy, Inc., announced yesterday it would close its coal mining operations in Brilliant, Ohio. The company’s press release cites “regulatory actions by President Barack Obama and his appointees" as the “entire reason" for the mine’s closure. Ryan Murray, the company’s Vice President of...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 6194, the “U.S. Agricultural Sector Relief Act," and H.R. 6190, the “Asthma Inhalers Relief Act." The bipartisan bills offer necessary relief from rigid EPA regulations relating to implementation of the Montreal Protocol.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today advanced H.R. 6213, the “No More Solyndras Act." The committee approved the measure by a bipartisan vote of 29 to 19. Today’s vote comes on the heels of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal report on Solyndra’s...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2012
News Release: House Republicans are accusing the Obama White House - and the president’s reelection campaign manager Jim Messina - of purposefully skirting disclosure rules and negating the administration’s often-repeated claim to be “the most transparent administration in history."
By EPA Newswire | Aug 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 4273, the Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act. The bipartisan legislation, introduced by Reps. Pete Olson (R-TX) and Mike Doyle (D-PA), will ensure America’s power companies are able to comply with Department of Energy emergency orders to maintain grid reliability without facing penalties for violating potentially conflicting environmental laws.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2012
News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Power (112th Congress) . Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, convened a bipartisan forum on “State, Local, and Federal Cooperation in the Clean Air Act.". The forum was intended to provide an opportunity for members of Congress to hear...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 6131, a bill to reauthorize the U.S. SAFE Web Act of 2006 and S. 710, the “Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act." Both measures were reported out of the full committee by voice vote.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, will host bipartisan forums on Tuesday, July 31, and on Thursday, Aug. 2, to examine state, local, and federal cooperation in the Clean Air Act. The forums are intended to provide an opportunity for members of Congress to hear a broad range of perspectives from experts about their experiences in implementing the Clean Air Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) made the following statement after U.S. District Court Judge John Kane issued an injunction on the Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate on Hercules Industries to provide drugs or services that violate their religious or moral conviction...
