By US DOT Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced H.R. 4643, the Safe Air Transport of Hazardous Materials Act of 2017, legislation that provides the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with authority to regulate hazardous...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to express his concerns with the EPA's unjustified ground water monitoring rule for in ...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Brussels-U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta, Ambassador Kaja Tael, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the European Union, and European Commission Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) Director General Henrik Hololei signed Amendments to two US-EU agreements that will expand areas for joint efforts on aviation safety and air traffic management harmonization.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
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, the committee advanced the nomination of R.D. James, of Missouri, to be assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Committee." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
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 oversight hearing of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The hearing featured testimony from Kristine Svinicki, chairman of the NRC; Jeffery Baran, commissioner at the NRC; and Stephen Burns, commissioner at the NRC.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement regarding news that the nomination of Dr. Michael Dourson to lead the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention has been withdrawn.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
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 | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the minority members of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee called on Kathleen Hartnett White, President Trump's nominee to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality and serve as his most senior environmental advisor, to submit new and original responses ...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern Time is the deadline for Lead Applicants to- submit Volume I and Volume II - for the UAS Integration Pilot Program (UAS IPP).
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), is demanding answers today to a key question of the Uranium One investigation - whether the Obama administration intentionally misled Congress on uranium exports.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $1.1 million civil penalty against Braille Battery, Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Each holiday season for the past several years, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has received reports from pilots who said they were distracted or temporarily blinded by residential laser-light displays.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), praised the Senate's confirmation of Susan Parker Bodine to serve as assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Senate confirmed Bodine by voice vote.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke on the Senate floor before the Senate approved, by voice vote, Susan Bodine's nomination to serve as the assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA). Senator Carper's remarks, as prepared for delivery, are below...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
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 on the Senate floor, in support of the nomination of Susan Parker Bodine to serve as assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Senate confirmed Bodine by voice vote.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
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 on the nomination of R.D. James to serve as assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Hearing on the Nomination of R.D. James to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as submitted for the record...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), questioned R.D. James, nominee to be assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, during a nomination hearing of the committee. Barrasso questioned James on several water issues facing the state of Wyoming, including ice jam flooding in Worland, WY, and the Waters of the United States rule.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) praised Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt's announcement that the agency would hold a listening session in Gillette, WY, on the repeal of ...
