By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today unanimously approved the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2020, a bill that authorizes projects to improve America’s ports and harbors, inland waterway navigation, flood and storm protection, and other water resources infrastructure.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement about the Trump Administration's rule that undermines protections afforded to Americans through the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This landmark environmental law is often called the “Magna Carta of environmental laws."
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) applauded the White House Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) final regulations regarding the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Barrasso is chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). EPW has jurisdiction over NEPA.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after the House Committee on Appropriations advanced the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) bill with a newly-added provision...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2020
News Release: FAA issues new cargo exemption, amends existing cargo exemption.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), and Water Resources and Environment...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold a Full Committee markup Wednesday, July 15, at 10:00AM EDT to consider the following...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to maintain the national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for Ground Level Ozone despite the latest science showing a more protective standard may be needed.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), and Water Resources...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C.-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $101,250 civil penalty against Exodus Aircraft LLC, of Wilmington, Del., for allegedly violating a number of aircraft-operation regulations.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) introduced The Maritime Transportation System Emergency Relief Act (MTSERA), ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Switzerland Federal Office of Civil Aviation today announced that they have reached an agreement in harmonizing domestic and international safety standards for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS ).
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the decision by a federal appeals court to uphold a federal district court's decision to place the grizzly bear in Wyoming back on the Endangered Species List.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), along with eight of their colleagues, wrote to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler demanding ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has extended to July 24, 2020 the comment period on the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the South-Central Florida Metroplex, the agency’s plan to modernize air traffic procedures for 21 airports in the southern half of the state.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 7, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was joined by officials from the City of Wilmington, Delaware Nature Society, Delaware Wildlands and Delaware Parks at Father Tucker Park in Little Italy to highlight the Great American Outdoors Act, bipartisan legislation recently passed by the U.S. Senate that would fully and permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, 29 U.S. Senators led by Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Ranking Member Tom Carper and 118 members of the U.S. House of Representatives led by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. filed an amicus brief in the case of Union of Concerned Scientists, et al. v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), et al., which is currently pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks on the House Democrats' partisan infrastructure legislation.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 233-188 to pass H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, comprehensive legislation that invests more than $1.5 trillion in our Nation’s roads, bridges, transit, rail, ports and harbors, schools, housing, broadband, drinking and wastewater systems, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 1, 2020
News Release: The Speaker of the House has taken a “My Way or the Highway" approach to infrastructure, and today the House is expected to vote on the highly partisan H.R. 2. Instead of seeking bipartisan solutions, this bill adds $1.5 trillion dollars to the Nation’s debt and disguises a heavy-handed and unworkable Green New Deal regime of new requirements as an “infrastructure bill."
