By US DOT Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today said that the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee report on the Interior Department's Acting Inspector General Mary Kendall warrants attention.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 21, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today asked acting Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bob Perciasepe, to disclose the EPA's justification of preemptively vetoing the Pebble Mine Project, a copper and gold mining project in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement in response to the release of more information on the President’s infrastructure plan...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 20, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Committee Members Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) today sent a letter to acting Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Bob Perciasepe, and Dr. Ken Olden, Director ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today released findings from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) second tranche of Richard Windsor emails. The release shows that acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe used a private email ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Following a briefing today from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta on the status of the agency’s ongoing review related to the Boeing Dreamliner battery incidents, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Committee Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV), Subcommittee on Aviation Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA) released the following joint statement...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 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 Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) unveiling the agency's new rule-making guideline. The Office of the Science Advisor released a new data quality guide , which ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter, top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, responded to the carbon tax bill being introduced by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 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 Assistant Administrator for the Environment Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation, Gina McCarthy.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall, top Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today urged his colleagues to retain a strong Federal role for development of critical, job-creating infrastructure. At a hearing before Rahall’s Committee to examine the Federal role in infrastructure, business and labor leaders offered testimony on the economic and job creation benefits that investment in modern infrastructure yields.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2013
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure held its first hearing of the 113th Congress today focusing on the importance of infrastructure to the U.S. economy and examining the role played by the Federal Government in ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable infrastructure.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Following a briefing today from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta on the status of the agency’s ongoing review related to the Boeing Dreamliner battery incidents, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Committee Ranking...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will deliver the keynote address at Wednesday’s U.S. Chamber of Commerce “Let’s Rebuild America" transportation infrastructure summit.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to the President's State of the Union Address tonight...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is adopting strong ethical standards and other protections for pesticide testing studies that are submitted to the agency.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold its first hearing of the 113th Congress next week entitled “The Federal Role in America’s Infrastructure."
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the statement below on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) response to the letter that they sent requesting that safety concerns at the San Onofre nuclear power plant be fully evaluated.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and fellow EPW Committee Republicans joined in a letter today pressing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lisa Jackson, for answers on the science behind these new air standards regulations and how they will impact states and localities and economic recovery.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today applauded a watchdog organization that litigates for private property rights and a balanced approach to environmental regulations. The Pacific Legal Foundation is challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for designating 1,544 acres of private property in St. Tammany Parish, La. as "critical habitat" for the dusky gopher frog.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Today, a group of top Republicans asserted that the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is inappropriately using an exemption clause in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in an attempt to hide the alias(es) used by the Administrator. U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment ...
