By US DOT Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, highlighted actions taken by President Trump's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including those of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his team, to undermine the core mission of the agency in the first year of the Trump Administration. A selection of some of the most detrimental actions taken by EPA over the past year can be found here.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that 2017 was the second hottest year on record, after 2016, since global measurements were first possible in 1880.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) released the following statement on the announcement that multiple uranium producers have jointly filed a petition with the U.S. Commerce Department to investigate the effects of uranium imports on U.S. national security.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, joined the POLITICO Money Podcast with Ben White to discuss the state of our country's infrastructure, the possibilities of passing infrastructure legislation in the 115th Congress and ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure held the hearing, “America's Water Infrastructure Needs and Challenges: Federal Panel " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
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 hearing titled “America's Water Infrastructure Needs and Challenges: Federal Panel."
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Michael Capuano (D-MA) sent a letter to Amtrak President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Anderson requesting a detailed update on Amtrak’s safety culture and implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) on routes owned or operated by Amtrak.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign is designed to educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Next Thursday, the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment will hold a hearing to examine new approaches to speed the delivery of critical water infrastructure projects. The testimony heard at the hearing will help inform the Committee’s work as it considers a new Water Resources...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Next Wednesday, the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation will hold a hearing to examine the state of the U.S. Flag Maritime Industry. At the hearing, the Subcommittee will hear testimony from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and representatives of the maritime industry.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), chairman of the EPW Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, and every Republican member of the EPW committee, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt in support of the agency's repeal of the Obama administration's burdensome Clean Power Plan regulation.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Michael Capuano (D-MA) introduced legislation that would speed up the implementation of life-saving...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plan to hold a listening session in Gillette, WY, on March 27. The listening session will be on the proposed repeal of the Obama administration's burdensome Clean Power Plan (CPP) regulation.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure held the hearing, “America's Water Infrastructure Needs and Challenges. " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 10, 2018
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 hearing titled “America's Water Infrastructure Needs and Challenges."
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Work Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) questioned Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt on his appointment of two advisors to serve on EPA's Federal Advisory Committees ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
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 Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), chairman of the EPW Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt asking him to withdraw a punishing policy known as “once-in-always-in."
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement after attending a long-awaited briefing from Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and White House officials about infrastructure issues ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement after a bipartisan briefing with top Trump administration officials on infrastructure. The meeting included Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, and senators from the EPW committee.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke at a public meeting hosted by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources (DNREC) to voice his strong opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan.
