By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor on how it's time to pass America's Transportation Infrastructure Act (ATIA).
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 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), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, introduced an amendment to the American Energy Innovation Act that would direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement a phase down of the production ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is inviting comments until March 30, 2020 on a temporary air traffic procedure change at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) called HOLTB. The HOLTB amended a waypoint by moving it 784 feet southwest in order to move north-flow departing aircraft away from protected airspace while keeping aircraft over the Potomac River.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Aviation Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) from today’s hearing entitled, “The Airline Passenger Experience: What it Is and What It Can Be":
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) during today’s hearing titled: “The Airline Passenger Experience: What It Is and What It Could Be."
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 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. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Braun (R-IN), Mike Rounds (R-SD), John Boozman (R-AR), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding efforts to assess and modernize the NRC's nuclear safety inspection program, known as the Reactor Oversight Process.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - For your planning purposes, Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) announced the Subcommittee will meet on Friday, March 6, 2020, at 10:00 a.m. in Baldwin Park, California, to conduct a roundtable on “America’s Water Resources Infrastructure: ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General (IG) to open an investigation into potentially unlawful efforts and procedural problems related to the preparation and review ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Funding a Robust Freight and Passenger...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “The Airline Passenger Experience: What it Is and What It Can Be." The hearing...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2020
News Release: DOVER, Del. - Today, at Delaware's first annual Youth Environmental Summit (YES!) hosted at the Del Tech Conference Center, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), encouraged a packed room of 150 Delaware students to continue raising awareness, creating momentum and leading the climate movement
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) 42nd Annual General Aviation (GA) and Part 135 Activity Survey is open February 24 to July 10, 2020. This voluntary survey is distributed by mail to a representative sample of GA and on-demand Part 135 aircraft owners and operators. Survey participants may complete the survey online or by mail.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) during today’s Members’ Day Hearing to examine Members’ priorities in development of the Water Resources Development Act of 2020 (WRDA).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-AR) from today’s hearing entitled, “Proposals for a Water Resources Development Act of 2020: Members’ Day Hearing":
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was joined by 13 senators in sending a letter to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to voice their strong opposition to the Trump Administration's draft rule that ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 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), along with a dozen other senators, sent a letter to President Trump urging him to file a petition for a rehearing of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit's decision to invalidate hardship relief for small refineries under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) are leading ten of their colleagues in calling on the Trump administration to withdraw its rewrite of a bedrock environmental law.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a slate of bipartisan measures during the first full Committee markup of the new year, including legislation to ensure people who are affected by disasters can promptly access critical assistance, legislation to...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2020
News Release: Today, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a slate of bipartisan measures during the first full Committee markup of the new year, including legislation to ensure people who are affected by disasters can promptly access critical assistance, legislation to prevent the Federal...
