By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today reaffirmed their commitment to getting the Keystone XL pipeline built despite President Obama’s decision this week to reject the project. Members expressed their deep disappointment in the president’s choice to say no to a project that would create tens of thousands of jobs and bring nearly a million barrels of secure oil to this country each day.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) announced today that Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environment and Scientific Affairs, will testify at next week’s subcommittee...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: Bearing bad news, the president called Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to inform him that he would not approve the Presidential Permit for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Instead of saying “˜yes’ to thousands of American jobs and a secure energy source, the president told Harper he needed...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today outlined new plans to move forward on the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline, scheduling a hearing one week from today and announcing their intent to move forward on legislation that will restart the project after it was rejected today...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement in response to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s comments about spectrum legislation at the Consumer Electronic Show...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Marking the end of a more than five-year bureaucratic saga that has become all too common, federal air permits for exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea were made final yesterday after years of EPA delay. The EPA’s internal appeals board rejected the latest in a long series of...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is sidestepping several important disclosure requirements with the new health care law and is preventing Congress and the American public from being able to assess the true costs associated with the so-called “essential health benefits," according to a letter sent today to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from several House chairmen and Senate ranking members.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today welcomed the idea of consolidating duplicative and complex federal agencies, pointing to reports from the U.S. Government Accountability Office and information gathered in committee hearings as evidence that shrinking government...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressional leaders from the Kentucky and Ohio delegations sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu yesterday urging him to take immediate action to create and protect jobs and maintain U.S. access to a vital resource by moving forward with the American Centrifuge and the re-enrichment...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this evening received 66 pages of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. The committee had previously received 136 pages in mid-November. The committee served subpoenas...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2012
News Release: I must have been mad. I never knew what I had. Until I threw it all away . Canada’s newfound coziness with China conjures a Bob Dylan classic about a squandered relationship. Dylan sang, “But I was cruel; I treated her like a fool; I threw it all away." Sounds a lot like the U.S. relationship with Canada.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of over 100 organizations from all over the country wrote to President Obama today urging him to approve the Keystone XL pipeline “as soon as possible." The broad coalition of supporters cited the immense benefits the pipeline will bring to America in terms of job creation, economic growth, energy security, and national security.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - It has now been 19 days since President Obama signed a bill requiring that he approve the Keystone XL pipeline unless he determines it would not serve the national interest. While the president continues to delay the pipeline, thousands of American jobs hang in the balance. But this...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Obama Environmental Protection Agency hit yet another legal snag yesterday when the D.C. District Court issued an order vacating EPA’s current stay of two of its Boiler MACT rules. EPA put the rules on hold after a tumultuous rule-making process that included an extended comment...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released a new bipartisan staff report that details the findings from the committee’s investigation into the 2011 Listeria outbreak in cantaloupes grown and processed at Jensen Farms. The report is based on documents from and interviews with food...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The clock continues to tick as President Obama inches closer to his deadline to approve the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline. It has now been 14 days since the president signed a bill requiring him to approve the pipeline within 60 days, unless he determines it is not in the national interest.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding today’s announcement from the U.S. Department of Labor that 200,000 jobs were created in December and the national unemployment rate now stands at 8.5 percent...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 5, 2012
News Release: Over the last year, the hallmark of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the entire U.S. House of Representatives has been our sustained effort to promote job creation so Americans can get back to work. We’re fighting for a smaller, more accountable federal government that works for the people and promotes...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Dec. 23, 2011, President Obama signed into law a bill requiring approval of the Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days unless the president determines the pipeline would not serve the national interest. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a new Keystone XL...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law H.R. 2845, the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after President Obama signed the bill into law...
