By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
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 Representative Jason Smith (R-MO-8) introduced the Fairness for Every Driver Act. This legislation will save billions in taxpayer funds by ending the federal electric ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
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 Representative Jason Smith (R-MO-8) introduced the Fairness for Every Driver Act. This legislation will save billions in taxpayer funds by ending the federal electric ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - To mark the historic and successful flight into space last year on Dec. 13 by Virgin Galactic, top U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials will present the crew of SpaceShipTwo with FAA Astronaut Wings.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after the State of the Union address by President Donald Trump...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: Statement of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) following the President’s State of the Union address...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, during the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) business meeting to consider the nomination of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the EPW Committee, urged his Republican colleagues ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
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 committee business meeting. At the business meeting, the committee voted 11 to 10 to advance the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
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 committee business meeting. At the meeting, Barrasso gave an over view of his agenda for the committee in the 116th Congress.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a business meeting to consider Andrew Wheeler, to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Peter C. Wright, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of Land and Emergency Management, EPA; John Fleming, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2019
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 committee ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), praised the committee's passage of S. 268, the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- The status of our Nation’s roads, bridges, transit systems, clean water systems, ports and inland waterways, and airports, the trillion-dollar backlog of maintenance and repair needs, and the increasing costs of Federal inaction will be the subject of this week’s hearing.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the primary agency responsible for the safe and efficient use of the national airspace. In carrying out its vital aviation safety mission, the FAA maintains a complex, interrelated system of oversight, approvals, reviews, and renewals that allow an integrated network of regulated individuals, air carriers, and others to continue safe operations in the airspace.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and all other EPW Democrats today urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to reopen public comment periods for all pending ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), joined with committee ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), to reintroduce S. 268, the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act. Wildlife conservation groups are voicing their support for the WILD Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On the 30th anniversary of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA), U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and colleagues introduced bipartisan ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), joined with committee ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), to reintroduce S. 268, the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act. The WILD Act is also cosponsored by Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Cory Booker (D-NJ), John Boozman (R-AR), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), joined with Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of EPW, to reintroduce the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver Act, or the WILD Act. The WILD Act is also cosponsored by Senators Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), John Boozman (R-Ark.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Dear Acting Administrator Wheeler: We are deeply concerned about the impacts of the recent government shutdown on public health, the protection of our environment, and our national, regional, and local economies. Yet, despite numerous requests from our staff to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced the first full committee hearing of the 116th Congress, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investing in Our Nation’s Infrastructure Cannot Wait". The hearing will examine the current...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) reintroduced legislation to increase transparency associated with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hiring and prevent any future administrator from ...
