By US DOT Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Today, the eight Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee did not attend the nomination vote of Gina McCarthy to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), leading to a postponement of the vote for a period yet to be determined. On April 25, 2013, the Committee Republicans asked Chairman Barbara Boxer to postpone the nomination vote because they had not yet received answers to their five main requests.
By US DOT Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Today, the eight Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee will not attend the nomination vote of Gina McCarthy to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On April 25, 2013 the Committee Republicans asked Chairman Barbara Boxer to postpone the nomination vote because they had not received answers to their questions. That request was denied. The Senators made the following statement today...
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic and Republican leaders on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today joined together in introducing bipartisan legislation that would create American jobs by investing $13.8 billion over five years through the State Revolving Fund (SRF) and other efforts to improve water quality.
By US DOT Newswire | May 6, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released Gina McCarthy's responses to questions he submitted for the record following her April 8 hearing. McCarthy who is nominated to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faces the Committee vote, the next step in her confirmation process, on Thursday.
By US DOT Newswire | May 3, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today made the following statement regarding S.601, the Water Resources Development Act of 2013 (WRDA), which is expected to be on the Senate floor next week. Vitter and EPW Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) are the lead sponsors of the legislation.
By US DOT Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, May 9 at 9:15 a.m., Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, will hold a full committee business meeting to consider the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The business meeting will be held in 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By US DOT Newswire | May 2, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congressman Bill Cassidy (R-LA-6), member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, today sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank urging the Department of Commerce to send Dr. Roy ...
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released new findings from the Richard Windsor emails showing that former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson impersonated the alias Windsor in email correspondence. Findings also show Jackson corresponding with environmental groups and other non-EPA officials from the Windsor account.
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement today on a survey released by the Institute for Energy Research that shows a growing trend among Americans wanting a more transparent federal government.
By US DOT Newswire | May 1, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made this statement following the Administration's announcement of the new Region 8 administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Shaun McGrath who is the former mayor of Boulder, Colorado, and principle of the environmental planning company Wheelhouse Associates.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of EPW, made the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) revisions on their miscalculated emissions estimates that come from natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today applauded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision to make secret "sue-and-settle" practices more difficult. Sue-and-settle is frequently used by environmental groups in coordination with the Obama Administration. The ruling takes a step forward in bringing transparency to the settlement process that is currently leaving stakeholders out of negotiations.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), announced that the EPW Committee will conduct oversight into the circumstances surrounding the chemical disaster in West, Texas, as well as an examination of the chemical safety laws that apply ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement on the President’s nomination of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to the post of U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall II, top Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, released the following statement on the nomination of Mayor Anthony Foxx as Secretary of Transportation.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today responded to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) watershed assessment on the implications of a hypothetical copper mining project similar to the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement today upon passage of the Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013 (H.R. 1765 ), a bill to ensure the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) can end furloughs of air traffic controllers. The bill passed the House by a vote of 361 to 41.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In recognition of National Healthy Schools Day on April 30, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Republicans on the Committee today sent a letter to Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) requesting she wait to schedule the vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be Administrator of the Environmental ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2013
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Panel on 21st Century Freight Transportation, chaired by Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), held its first hearing today to highlight the importance of freight transportation to the U.S. economy and what challenges there are to improving the efficiency and safety of transporting goods throughout the country.
