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News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a business meeting to consider S.826, S.518, S.692 and S.675. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...

Graves Statement from Hearing on FAST Act Implementation

News Release: (Remarks as Prepared). I want to welcome all of our witnesses today. By now, we have all seen the reports of last week’s fire and resulting collapse of a section of I-85 northeast of Atlanta. This is a critically important piece of our Interstate System, carrying over 400,000 cars per day. With that...

Carper Applauds State Attorneys General Continuing to Defend the Clean Power Plan

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after a number of state Attorneys General informed the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals they will continue to defend the Clean Power Plan in court after the Trump Administration asked for a pause in court deliberations to rewrite or abandon the plan.

EPW Committee Passes Bipartisan Wildlife Conservation Legislation

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 to consider S. 826 , the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act. The bipartisan WILD Act passed the committee by voice vote.

Carper Joins Bipartisan Group of Senators in Introducing Brownfields Reauthorization

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, joined a bipartisan group of Senators led by Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), in introducing the Brownfields Utilization, Investment, and Local Development ...

Shuster & LoBiondo Statements from Hearing on Enabling Innovation in the National Airspace

News Release: Shuster and LoBiondo Opening Statements. Hearing on “Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Enabling Innovation in the National Airspace". April 4, 2017. (Remarks as Prepared). Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The United States is the birthplace of...

Kelly, DeFazio Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Guarantee Maintenance of Nation’s Ports and Harbors

News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA), and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), introduced H.R. 1908, the Investing in America: Unlocking the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act, bipartisan legislation that would increase...

Barrasso: WILD Act Will Help Stimulate Innovation

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 on the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act. The WILD Act is cosponsored by EPW Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK).

Bipartisan Group of Senators Introduce Wildlife Conservation Legislation

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) and Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Cory Booker (D-NJ), John Boozman (R-AR), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to introduce S. 826 , the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act.

DeFazio, Norton to Chao: We Cannot Streamline Our Way Out Of Our Transportation Funding Shortfall

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 House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), sent a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT) Elaine...

Carper Blasts Pruitt on Deliberate Attempt to Suppress Analysis of EPA Career Staff

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following news reports that senior EPA officials deliberately withheld information from the Congressional Budget Office in order to misrepresent the impacts and cost to taxpayers of pending legislation, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, ...

Carper Requests More Information from EPA on Decision to Allow Previously Banned Pesticide

By US DOT Newswire | Apr 3, 2017

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, requested more information from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt on the agency's decision to reverse a ban on the remaining uses of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide ...

Coast Guard Subcommittee Hearing to Focus on Authorization of Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Programs

News Release: Washington, DC - The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation will hold hearing next week to examine Coast Guard and federal maritime transportation programs, in preparation for an authorization bill later this Congress.

Carper Statement on Trump Hotel Lease

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), released the following statement after the General Services Administration (GSA) provided a briefing to his staff on President Donald Trump's lease of the Old Post Office Building.

Aviation Subcommittee to Examine Innovation in the National Airspace

News Release: The Subcommittee on Aviation will hold its fourth hearing of the Congress next week as part of its preparations for a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reform and reauthorization bill later this year.

Highways Subcommittee to Examine FAST Act Implementation from the Perspective of States and Local Entities