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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, pressing him for details as to EPA’s reported proposals to regulate the power sector.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today marked one year since becoming Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). Chairman Carper and Ranking Member Capito reflected on a year of accomplishments at the helm of EPW.

The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT or Department) took action today to protect aviation consumers by issuing fines to an airline and an online ticket agent for violating federal statutes and the Department’s aviation consumer protection rules. DOT fined the airline Air China $300,000 ...

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and senior member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), today sent a letter to United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy calling for the agency to reverse course and adopt a cleaner, more sustainable fleet for its next generation of delivery vehicles.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a legislative hearing to examine S. 2373 , the American Nuclear Infrastructure Act of 2021, and S. 1290 , the STRANDED Act of 2021.

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office ...

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) today marked one year since becoming Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee. Ranking Member Capito and Chairman Carper reflected on a year of accomplishments at the helm of EPW.

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program Fiscal Year 2022 Phase I solicitation on Monday. The SBIR Program awards contracts to small businesses across the country to spur research and commercialization of innovative transportation technologies.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined during a public meeting Tuesday that a motorcoach driver’s loss of control due to the vehicle’s unsafe speed led to the fatal Jan. 5, 2020, multivehicle crash near Mt. Pleasant Township, Pennsylvania.

A captain’s decision to get under way while fatigued led to the grounding and sinking of a fishing vessel near Whittier, Alaska, the National Transportation Safety Board said in Marine Investigation Report 22/02 released Tuesday.On July 24, 2021, the fishing vessel Tenacious, which fished primarily for pink salmon, grounded at the entrance to Wells Passage while transiting to fishing grounds in Prince William Sound.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Mexican-licensed commercial driver (Licencia Federal de Conductor (“LF”)) J. Rafael Arizaga-Tapia a/k/a Nibardo Andrade-Mendoza to be an “imminent hazard” to public safety and ordered him to immediately cease operating any commercial motor vehicle (“CMV”) in interstate commerce in the United States. Arizaga-Tapia was served the Federal order on February 4, 2022.