By US DOT Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led a group of 30 senators urging the Administration in a letter to withdraw draft guidance to define "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act (CWA). If not withdrawn, the guidance could lead the EPA to redefine when isolated wetlands, intermittent streams, and other non-navigable waters should be subject to regulation.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Rep Nick J. Rahall, top Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, released the following statement on today’s U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia’s ruling, which found that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to retroactively veto Clean Water Act permits previously issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, as EPA did with the Spruce Mine permit in Logan County, West Virginia in January, 2011.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- In recognition of the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day on April 22, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) issued the following statement today after Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta announced that a five percent budget reduction due to sequestration would result in the furloughing of thousands of air traffic controllers and potentially disrupt the travel plans of the flying public...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to White House Energy Advisor Heather Zichal regarding her public statements recently at an event hosted by Securing America's Future Energy. At the event Zichal admits the Administration would not accept any expanded drilling on federal lands beyond the existing Outer Continental Shelf plan.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 18, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released a map today showing potential political bias influencing the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Program grants.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report today that recommends a moratorium on new federal courthouse construction projects that, if built, would cost taxpayers billions of dollars. According to the GAO, most of the proposed projects do not meet the judiciary’s own criteria for project requests and need to be reevaluated.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV) today announced the members of a special panel tasked with examining the current state of freight transportation in the United States and how improving freight transportation can strengthen the U.S. economy.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV) today announced the members of a special panel tasked with examining the current state of freight transportation in the United States and how improving freight transportation can strengthen the U.S. economy.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and every fellow Republican on the Committee, today followed up on the five transparency concerns they have with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a letter to Gina McCarthy, nominee to head the Agency.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today introduced the bipartisan North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act (NAWCA), which would reauthorize the program to protect and restore wetlands in all 50 states through 2017. Authorization for the program expired at the end of fiscal year 2012.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Leaders of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation sent a bipartisan letter today to the Administration expressing profound disappointment with the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unprecedented decision to close...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, questioned Gina McCarthy, the nominee to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, about the agency's lack of transparency and tendency to create new, costly rules using backroom "sue-and-settle" deals.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Boxer, for convening today's hearing. The EPA plays a critical role in the status of not only our environment but our economic competitiveness. I am concerned that the central functions of the Agency have been obfuscated by ideology, frustrated by a severe lack of transparency, undermined by science the Agency keeps hidden, and implemented without regard for economic consequences.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 11, 2013
News Release: Statement of Barbara Boxer Hearing on the Nomination of Gina McCarthy to become the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency April 11, 2013 Today, I welcome the President's nominee for Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy. Gina McCarthy, you are one of ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) will hold a hearing on Tuesday to review the President’s budget requests for the U.S. Coast Guard, the Maritime Administration, and the Federal Maritime Commission.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will lead a hearing next Wednesday focused on whether billions of dollars in proposed new federal courthouse construction is justified. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) will release a new report in conjunction with the Committee’s hearing.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) will convene the panel’s first hearing on developing a Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). One of the Committee’s top priorities this Congress, WRDA legislation focuses on developing, maintaining, and supporting the Nation’s port and waterway infrastructure, as well as addressing targeted flood protection and environmental restoration needs.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today wrote to Gina McCarthy, nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and current ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The following is the statement of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) on the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal...
