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By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the automatic addition of nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to set newer, more protective national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM) pollution.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a proposal to strengthen a key national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for fine particle pollution, also known as PM2.5, to better protect communities, including those most overburdened by pollution. Fine particles, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: DETROIT, MI - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the second anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 7, 2023
News Release: DENVER (January 6, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding two Colorado small businesses, Lafayette-based, Sporian Microsystems Inc., and Lakewood-based, J-Tech LLC, $100,000 each to develop promising environmental technologies related to microplastics identification and wastewater ...
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on a slate of legislation, including three Republican bills, which all passed with unanimous support. Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response:
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) and Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) led a letter to congressional appropriators, requesting that any year-end funding package prohibit federal funding for the listing of the northern long-eared bat (NLEB) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In part, the members wrote:
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 8393, the Puerto Rico Status Act, with a vote of 233-191.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
U.S. House of Representatives passed three Republican bills under suspension of the rules.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, praised the announcement from Form Energy, Inc. (Form Energy) that they have entered into an agreement with the State of West Virginia to build the first iron-air battery manufacturing facility along the Ohio River in the city of Weirton.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
This week, after months of bipartisan and bicameral negotiations, the Committees on Appropriations introduced a $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2023.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
I am pleased to announce that late last night, I introduced the bipartisan, bicameral, fiscal year 2023 omnibus appropriations bill
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Monday released the $1.7 trillion fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
Vice Chairman Shelby, Chair DeLauro, and I reached a bipartisan, bicameral framework that should allow us to finish an omnibus appropriations bill that can pass the House and Senate and be signed into law by the President.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
In the final act of the 117th Congress, the Senate has passed (68-29) the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) omnibus appropriations package containing all 12 appropriations measures, as well as $47 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine’s valiant efforts to repulse Russian invaders and bring the conflict to an end and $38 billion in much-needed emergency disaster assistance.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
The Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) omnibus appropriations package containing all 12 appropriations measures was filed today in the U.S. Senate.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today called on Twitter employees who were responsible for censoring the New York Post’s reporting about the Biden family’s influence peddling to testify before the House Oversight Committee next Congress. In letters to Vijaya Gadde, former Chief Legal Officer, Yoel Roth, former Global Head of Trust & Safety, and James Baker, Deputy General Counsel, Ranking Member Comer calls on them to make arrangements to testify at a public hearing.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today was selected to serve as the next chairman of the House Oversight Committee and issued the following statement:
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing by condemning violence in all forms and warned against ignoring facts about the increase in crime in the United States.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are pressing senior Biden Administration officials, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, and several virologists who authored “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” for information necessary to the Oversight Committee’s investigation into COVID origins and, for the first time, outlined the names of 40 individuals with whom the Committee will be requesting transcribed interviews.
