By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: Advisory Board members share a commitment and passion for encouraging women to access opportunities in aviation.
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) sent a letter to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Kristine Svinicki calling on the agency to accelerate completion of a rulemaking to establish a technology-inclusive regulatory framework for advanced nuclear reactor technologies.
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 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 U.S. House of Representatives approved H. Res. 965, which allows Congress to temporarily conduct virtual committee proceedings and implement remote voting on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic...
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about safety, including loss of control, power plant failure, and controlled flight into terrain.
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) called on U.S. airlines to make better efforts to apply social distancing policies to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, after multiple reports of increasingly full commercial flights. In letters...
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) released the following statements on today’s announcement on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s final rule to improve hours of service rules, provide greater flexibility for truckers, and improve highway safety...
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and member of the Finance Committee Energy Task Force, and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced ...
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- This week, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined his fellow co-founders of the Senate Environmental Justice Caucus, Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in introducing Environmental Justice ...
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statement regarding the Speaker’s announcement of the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act...
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration’s David Gray is a finalist for a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal. The medals, also known as Sammies, are awarded to outstanding federal employees who serve the public good and are addressing many of the country’s greatest challenges.
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2020
News Release: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member, and U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR), the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Ranking Member, released the following joint statement on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration...
By US DOT Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a new letter, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is asking Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler to respond to press reports that the EPA is planning to reverse its recent decision to prohibit the sale of older and dirtier wood stove models, which would lead to more harmful air pollution in the midst of a deadly respiratory pandemic.
By US DOT Newswire | May 11, 2020
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has posted the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the South-Central Florida Metroplex project, the agency’s plan to modernize air traffic procedures for four major air carrier airports and 17 additional airports in the southern half of the state.
By US DOT Newswire | May 9, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Leaders of the Homeland Security and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to urge them to establish an interagency working group to develop robust, coordinated plans to address...
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order revoking the repair station certificate of Elite Aviation Services of Springdale, Ark.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order revoking the aviation maintenance technical school certificate of Florida-based Boynton Beach Community High School.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, after four U.S. senators urged the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Assistant Administrator to be fair in determining how Fishery Disaster Assistance funding would be allocated to fishermen and seafood processors across the country, NOAA announced the administration decided to establish a minimum allocation of $1 million in fishery disaster assistance for small, coastal states.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced today that the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has been assigned a Category 2 rating because it does not comply with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) safety standards under the FAA’s International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Members Sam Graves (R-MO) and Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Ranking Member Bob Gibbs (R-OH) discussed highlights from a Subcommittee briefing on how the U.S. maritime industry is responding during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an emergency order revoking the repair station certificate of Ecolift Corporation of San Juan, P.R.
