By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, Acting Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and Doug Gregory, Executive Director of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, regarding the proliferation of lionfish in the Gulf of Mexico and the adverse impacts on the surrounding ecosystems and marine habitats.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following the guilty plea by John Beale, a career employee at the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) who was hired in the 1980s during President Reagan's Administration, for theft of government property.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), sent a letter to Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change at the U.S. State Department, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) joined co-chairs Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) as the leader of the U.S. Senate Climate Change Clearinghouse, which is a regular forum where members of the Senate meet to discuss the latest climate change science, recent innovations ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to President Obama, regarding his comments before the United Nations General Assembly, during which he committed that the United States "will ensure the free flow of energy" from the Middle East and Africa.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding President Obama's pledge to "ensure the free flow" oil from the Middle East and North Africa during today's speech before the United Nations.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, along with all Committee Republicans, asked U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chairman of the EPW Committee to set a date for the much delayed hearing to review the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today in Dallas, Texas, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, presented the inaugural Climate Hero Award to the George W. Bush Presidential Center for achievement in energy conservation, renewable energy, and sustainable design. Former First Lady Laura Bush accepted the award on behalf of the Bush Center and provided a tour of the center and its surroundings.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) release of a White House-approved proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants and requires adoption of a cost-prohibitive carbon control technology that is unavailable at a commercial scale.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement today regarding new proposed carbon pollution standards for future power plants...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: H.R. 3080: the Water Resources Reform & Development Act of 2013 #WRRDA has passed committee favorably. Read it here...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Statement of Chairman Barbara Boxer Full Committee Oversight Hearing on the Implementation of MAP-21's Project Delivery Provisions Sept. 18, 2013 We are here to conduct oversight on the bipartisan "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act" (MAP-21), which President Obama signed into law ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.), Chairman of the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, introduced the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reorganization Plan Codification and Complements Act (NRC ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement after the release of a joint University of Texas and Environmental Defense Fund study showing that methane leakage from shale gas development is not releasing nearly as much methane ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement today to drop their draft guidance to define "waters of the United States," as well as their plans to conduct ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today lead seven Senators in sending a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding the EPA's involvement in the development and ultimate use of the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) estimates in current and upcoming energy-related rules.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made the following statement regarding the withdrawal of a partner in the proposed Pebble Mine Project in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The remaining partner has committed to continuing with the project.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Jack Lew, Secretary of the Department of Treasury (Treasury), regarding the Department's decision to release only 3% of emails related to a possible tax on carbon emissions, requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: On Tuesday, September 17th at 4:30 p.m., Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will answer questions on Twitter about the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013 (WRRDA), water resources reform legislation that cuts federal red tape and bureaucracy, streamlines...
