By EPA Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Marilyn Tavenner, the Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, seeking more information about the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program. The program was established in the health care law to provide federal funding to create nonprofit health insurance issuers.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee responded to the latest Medicare Trustees report, released today, warning that a weakened economy and failure to enact meaningful reforms to place entitlements on a more secure footing is leaving our nation financially vulnerable and seniors less secure for the future.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee continue to press the administration for a transparent accounting of EPA’s recently issued Utility MACT rule. Despite repeated requests from the committee, the administration has failed to provide an estimate for the total...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Documents recently gathered from the General Services Administration in response to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigation into DOE’s $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra reveal that former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson, after cancelling a planned visit to Solyndra...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its focus on job creation, the subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), convened a hearing today to discuss an all-important question facing the U.S. economy: “Can American Manufacturing Thrive Again?" This was the subcommittee’s second hearing in its where the jobs are hearing series to examine obstacles and opportunities to understand and improve the employment outlook in America.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are seeking answers from Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko regarding his recent votes opposing the construction and licensing of the nation’s first nuclear reactors in three decades. Jaczko was the lone dissenting vote opposing...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders today urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to join them in supporting legislation that would create a path forward for the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline. The House opened debate today on H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the passage of H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. The legislation passed with two key provisions from the Energy and Commerce Committee: requiring approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and providing for the safe management and reuse of coal ash. Upton issued the following statement on the bill’s passage...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today urged President Obama to re-nominate NRC Commissioner Kristine Svinicki for another term. Commissioner Svinicki’s term ends on June 30, 2012.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a 588-page rule that expands regulations for oil and natural gas production to add complex new requirements affecting a variety of oil and gas production operations, including hydraulically fractured wells. House Energy...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield Upton (R-MI), today approved a pair of commonsense bills that could prevent further price increases at the pump. The panel advanced the Gasoline Regulations Act to help cut through red tape that...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) visited Michigan’s only refinery this week to learn about a new jobs and energy project. Upton and Harris toured the site of Marathon Petroleum Company’s new Detroit Heavy Oil Upgrade Project, ...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Documents recently gathered from the General Services Administration in response to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigation into DOE’s $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra reveal that former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson was scheduled to visit Solyndra on October...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns continue to press the Obama administration for answers and an accurate accounting of the 1603 energy stimulus program’s record, including its proven job creation.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement to mark the one year anniversary since the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns responded today to the Department of Treasury Inspector General’s report on the Obama administration’s ill-fated $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra. The report, ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: Republican members pushed back strongly this week against EPA’s new proposed rule regulating greenhouse gases for new coal plants. In a hearing Wednesday with EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy, Republican members of Subcommittee on Energy and Power blasted the administration’s actions to shut...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and other members of the committee wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today with a series...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded today’s decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve construction and operating licenses for two new nuclear reactors at SCANA’s V.C. Summer plant in South Carolina. After over three decades of inaction, this is the second pair of new reactors approved by the NRC this year.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 30, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the U.S. House unanimously rejected President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget by a vote of 414 to 0, the president urged Congress to “double down " on a stimulus energy program his FY2013 budget seeks to extend. The president made his comments just...
