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By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing titled “Farm Bill 2023: Rural Development and Energy Programs".
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
Committee Leaders: “We write to support the efforts of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to focus on implementing the new pipeline safety mandates and outstanding requirements from previous reauthorizations, and to encourage you to continue this work.”
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee Ranking Member Rick Crawford (R-AR) and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) have directed Amtrak’s Chairman of the Board to justify Amtrak’s practice of awarding six-figure bonuses to its top executives, offset by significant amounts of taxpayer funding, despite the company experiencing historic financial and ridership losses.
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, announced that a total of $71,488,445 in federal grants have been awarded to five critical ports in Washington state, including: Port of Grays Harbor, Northwest Seaport Alliance Port of Seattle, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Port of Olympia and the Port of Port Angeles.
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, recognized the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the decades of work to protect American consumers from dangerous and deadly products, including this year’s long overdue actions to protect children from hazardous residential elevators.
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas criticizing the unnecessary and improper Jones Act waivers issued by the agency for petroleum and liquid natural gas shipments to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Fiona.
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons, and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) today announced an award of $853,180 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enhance air quality monitoring in Delaware communities. T
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today announced two Democratic staff changes on the committee. Alexandra Teitz will serve as Chief Counsel, while Jake Abbott will take over as Communications Director.
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) has been awarded an $809,000 federal grant to purchase one propane and three electric school buses for the Colonial School District through the federal Clean School Bus Rebate Program
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
In an op-ed published today in National Review, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee discussed concrete solutions to ease the negative impacts of President Biden’s failed climate and energy policies ahead of the upcoming UN international climate summit, COP27.
By Press release submission | Nov 9, 2022
Today, U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statements on the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report on the impact of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on small refineries.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States today announced that Utica Resource Operating LLC (URO) has agreed to a settlement resolving alleged Clean Air Act violations at URO’s oil and gas production well facilities in Ohio. The settlement addresses URO’s failure to capture and control air emissions from storage vessels and to comply with associated inspection, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.)sent a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary GinaRaimondo, inquiring into the agency's potential overreach of congressional authority and lack of proper rulemaking. In part, Westermanwrote.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (NOV. 7, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Michael Zahner of Bollinger County, Missouri, and Mark Schmidt of Lancaster County, Nebraska, to take immediate steps to comply with the federal Clean Water Act.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra urging HHS to withdraw its proposed rule, titled...
By Bob Pepalis | Nov 8, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her husband, Paul Pelosi, was released from the hospital following the violent assault against him Oct. 28.
By Federal Newswire | Nov 8, 2022
Congressman Michael Cloud represents the 27th District of Texas and sits on the House Committee on Agriculture and House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Before entering public office he was a small business owner.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 8, 2022
News Release: DALLAS, TEXAS (Nov. 7th, 2022) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing Lemi Shine as an outstanding Safer Choice Formulator Product Manufacturer. Lemi Shine has prioritized educating consumers about how products that are safer for human health and the environment can also be affordable and perform well. The EPA commends Lemi Shine’s dedication to formulating and manufacturing products with safer chemical ingredients.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 8, 2022
News Release: Charleston, WV - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on Charles Sellars being named the new superintendent of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a report outlining how the Biden Administration and Oversight Committee Democrats have demonized domestic oil and gas production, promoted anti-American energy policies, and failed to produce a comprehensive plan to address high energy prices and ongoing marketplace shortages impacting the American people.
