By US DOT Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke out on the Senate floor against an amendment that supports the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline as part of the Shaheen-Portman energy bill (9/12/13).
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, asked Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Toxicology Program (NTP), about her involvement in various matters related to U.S. chemical safety policy, including her planned participation in a panel preceding the screening of a film featuring emotional and scare tactics regarding exposure to chemicals.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter is calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rethink their recent tentatively-selected plan for the West Shore Hurricane Protection Project. On Aug. 23, the Corps announced their "tentatively selected plan," but the alignment they chose protects fewer parishes than a separate alignment that is preferred by local officials.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Committee leaders today introduced unprecedented bipartisan water resources reform legislation that cuts federal red tape and bureaucracy, streamlines the infrastructure project delivery process, promotes fiscal responsibility, and strengthens our water transportation networks to promote America’s competitiveness, prosperity, and economic growth.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after leaders on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013 (WRRDA).
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding news reports of an armed raid conducted against miners in Chicken, Alaska last month.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: The leaders of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment will roll out the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013 (WRRDA) during a Wednesday press conference in the U.S. Capitol.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Republican staff today released their report entitled, "A Call for Sunshine: EPA's FOIA and Federal Records Failures Uncovered."
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 6, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today applauded the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for withdrawing from the flawed federal program for estimating recreational red snapper harvest in the Gulf of Mexico. The federal program tasked with red-snapper stock assessments say they have been overharvested this summer and will shut down the fall season.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) witnessed firsthand a demonstration of cutting edge driverless automobile technology, when he rode from suburban Pittsburgh to Pittsburgh International Airport in Carnegie Mellon University’s driverless vehicle.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding a report released today by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) that analyzes Australia's carbon tax and its failure to meet established goals.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Jon Wellinghoff, Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), regarding coordination with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to give public support of controversial regulations that may lead to closure of electric generating facilities and could negatively impact grid reliability.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today commented after the U.S. Department of Interior's second offshore lease sale for wind energy in the Atlantic Ocean. The first sale was July 31, 2013. Interior also granted one other lease, without competitive ...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below in connection with the Obama administration's updated recommendations on the safe handling and storage of ammonium nitrate, as well as emergency planning procedures.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 30, 2013
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will join Barry Schoch, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, as Carnegie Mellon University’s driverless 2011 Cadillac SRX transports them from surburban Cranberry to Pittsburgh International Airport. The vehicle...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 27, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) independent Inspector General (IG) to investigate the fraud case within the EPA's Office of Air. On Friday, a court case was filed against a high level employee for stealing nearly $900,000.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 26, 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 final Endangered Species Act rule change issued last Friday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration that will not include a full economic analysis in the process of designating critical habitat for endangered and threatened species.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. Senator David Vitter, top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released information about a massive fraud case at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation. The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing criminal charges on an employee of the office for stealing $886,186 from the Agency.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today received the first in what is anticipated to be a series of responses from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), after agreement by the agency to acquire and provide for independent analysis the science behind multiple rules promulgated under the Clean Air Act (CAA). Vitter has been calling for the release of the information since March 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Thank you for your kind introduction. I am thrilled to be here to help kick off the 11th Annual West Virginia Aviation Conference.
