News and reports from the Environmental Protection Agency.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt regarding the agency’s Fiscal Year 2019 Environmental Protection Agency Budget.

News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats will host a news conference today at 9 a.m. at the House Triangle with environmental advocacy leaders to reiterate their call for the firing or resignation of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt and to discuss important issues he...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health markup on “Opioid Legislation and H.R. 5554, Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug Amendments Act of 2018:"

News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel today requesting an investigation into whether there is a pattern of prohibited personnel practices taking place at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats today sent Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a list of hundreds of follow-up questions that he could either not answer at the hearing or questions that Democratic Committee members developed as a result of his testimony before the Committee.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today advanced 57 bills to the full Energy and Commerce Committee. Of the bills, 56 were focused on ways to help combat the opioid crisis. #SubHealth also considered the bipartisan, bicameral reauthorization of the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act (AGDUFA).

News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following an announcement from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., on new efforts to address youth access to tobacco products, including JUUL and other e-cigarettes...

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders today requested the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) enforcement of federal health and environmental safeguards, including EPA’s oversight of state enforcement programs. The request...

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The 21st Century Cures Act does more than accelerate the critical cycle of discovering new cures and treatments, developing them, and delivering them. The landmark law also made a number of important mental health reforms. Many of these reforms received critical resources in a government funding package that was signed into law by President Trump last month.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), formally announced a markup for Wednesday, April 25, 2018, at 1 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), yesterday held a roundtable discussion, hearing personal stories from the opioid crisis.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS), and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Benjamin Carson.

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today posted a request for information regarding the use of legacy technologies in health care. These technologies, which are in use across the sector, have also been a root cause of many health care cybersecurity challenges.

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson (D-MN) sent a letter to President Trump today expressing concern that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is inappropriately issuing waivers to fuel refiners in order to undermine the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program.

News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS), and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Benjamin Carson.