By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 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 the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle. The two reactors will join Vogtle’s two existing reactors near Waynesboro, Georgia, with Unit 3 expected to begin operating in 2016 and Unit 4 in 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following a briefing with Google last week, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter today to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page requesting additional information on the company’s recent privacy policy changes.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment and Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) met with reporters recently to outline a 2012 agenda for the subcommittee that focuses on protecting the American people, creating jobs, eliminating government waste. The agenda includes...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following a briefing with Google last week, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter today to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page requesting additional information on the company’s recent privacy policy changes.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-PA) yesterday introduced the Generic Drug and Biosimilar User Fee Act of 2012 (H.R. 3988), which authorizes...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton joined every Republican member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in urging full White House compliance related to the Committee’s subpoenas on Solyndra. Despite repeated attempts by the Committee to accommodate...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), held a hearing today to discuss the cost and consequences of EPA’s recently finalized Utility MACT rule on consumers and the economy.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing to examine threats to communications networks, the responses of the private sector, and the role of the federal government.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced plans to advance legislation through the committee and the U.S. House of Representatives that will reverse a recent decision by the Obama administration that will force religious employers to purchase and provide services that violate their religious beliefs and moral convictions.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce committee held opening statements yesterday on the markup of H.R. 3548, the North American Energy Access Act. Republican members touted the pipeline’s numerous economic and energy security benefits while some Democrats attempted to distract the debate by suggesting the pipeline would be built to facilitate oil exports.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today approved legislation to save the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline, a shovel-ready jobs and energy security project that President Obama delayed and ultimately rejected. H.R. 3548, the North American Energy Access Act, will finally put an end to...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing efforts to promote job creation and economic growth, the Energy and Commerce Committee held an installment of the Jobs and Innovation Forum Series with a focus on American manufacturing. A panel of experts and job creators discussed the obstacles and opportunities facing American...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) recently outlined a 2012 agenda that focuses on job creation, innovation, good government, and protecting the American people. The agenda includes...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing efforts to promote job creation and economic growth, the Energy and Commerce Committee announced plans for its next installment of the Jobs and Innovation Forum Series with a focus on American manufacturing. A panel of experts and job creators will discuss the obstacles and...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) met recently with reporters and outlined a 2012 agenda focused on job creation, economic growth, and consumer protection. The agenda includes...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the path forward for legislation to approve the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline. The Energy and Commerce Committee will mark up H.R. 3548, the North American Energy Access Act, next week, setting the stage for the legislation to be folded into the Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act when that legislation comes to the House floor for a vote this month.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today pressed the Environmental Protection Agency over its implementation of the Renewable Fuel Standard. EPA has discovered that tradeable fuel credits, known as Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), are being fraudulently sold, and the agency’s response may be adding to the problems.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Republicans continued to beat the drum this week with messages of jobs and energy security, reminding President Obama that the battle for the Keystone XL pipeline is far from over. The New York Times reports, “On the airwaves, on the campaign trail and in both chambers of Congress, ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this evening received 313 pages of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee exactly three months ago on Nov. 3, 2011. Without claiming executive privilege, the White House disclosed...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today to discuss the final recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. Members welcomed several of the commission’s recommendations, which propose a series of reforms to help solve our nation’s growing nuclear waste challenge.
