News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
In 2021, more than 15.3 million visitors visited Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument, and Fort Point National Historic Site.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
The National Park Service (NPS) has completed the planning and regulatory process required to allow bike use on the Cable Connector Trail, a 0.25-mile connector trail across NPS land near Cable, Wisconsin.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
The NPS Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program regularly hosts webinars on a variety of IPM and invasive species related topics which are open to anyone.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, March 1, at 10:30 a.m. (EST) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today commending the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) issuance of policies to incorporate climate change, landowner protections, and environmental justice considerations in the natural gas certification process:
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Americans in Need: Responding to the National Mental Health Crisis:”
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Chairman Touts Historic $65 Billion Broadband Investment Included in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Back from the Brink: Restoring Brownfield Sites to Economic Engines:”
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement today on new, bipartisan draft legislation seeking to promote competition, innovation, national security, the interests of consumers, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted 3-2 to make it more difficult to build natural gas projects in the United States.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the mental health crisis in America.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in today’s Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the mental health crisis in America.KEY: “Any updates [to CDC guidance] must unmask our children.
By Press release submission | Feb 21, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke about the need for NTIA oversight and the critical role they play in promoting economic growth and American leadership at today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing.
By Press release submission | Feb 21, 2022
In a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing, Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) delivered remarks on the need to connect truly unserved areas across the country.
By Press release submission | Feb 21, 2022
Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Biden administration’s request for $30 billion.
By Press release submission | Feb 21, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement following President Biden’s remarks on the Ukraine-Russia crisis.
By Press release submission | Feb 21, 2022
In an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing, Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) spoke about the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Brownfields” program.
By Press release submission | Feb 21, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Brownfields” program.
By Press release submission | Feb 21, 2022
House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent letters to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins about their apparent attempts to suppress scientific debate and information about the origins of COVID-19 and how such efforts may have influenced the advice they gave the White House and policymakers in the early days of the pandemic.
By Press release submission | Feb 21, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released an improved version of Bulletins Live! Two (BLT), an online application for Endangered Species Protection Bulletins. BLT describes geographically specific pesticide use limitations to protect threatened and endangered species and their designated critical habitat.
