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Rodgers, Comer, Jordan Introduce Bill to Stop Biden Administration from Pressuring Social Media Companies to Censor Americans


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MEDIA ADVISORY: Field Hearing in Morro Bay, California on Offshore Wind Opportunities in the Pacific


Pallone, Neal Applaud Biden Administration’s Final Public Charge Rule
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News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) applauded the Biden Administration’s final rule restoring longstanding policy on the treatment of noncitizens seeking government assistance. Soon, legal immigrants will...


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Finance Committee Favorably Reports Nomination of Doug McKalip to serve as Chief Agricultural Negotiator



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News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) applauded the Biden Administration’s final rule restoring longstanding policy on the treatment of noncitizens seeking government assistance. Soon, legal immigrants will...


Republicans Highlight Need for 'All-Of-The-Above' Energy Strategy in California
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News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Ranking Member Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) and U.S. Rep. Connie Conway (R-Calif.) joined a subcommittee field hearing in Morro Bay, Calif. on the issue of offshore wind energy in the American West.


Chairman Lynch Introduces Legislation to Strengthen Congressional Oversight of  Embassy Construction Projects
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News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, introduced H.R. 8779, the Embassy Construction Accountability Act, to strengthen Congressional oversight of the State Department’s construction of U.S. embassies and other overseas facilities.


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E&C Leaders Request Briefing From Meta On Protecting Reproductive Health Care Privacy


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News Release: DALLAS, Texas (September 8, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is committed to reducing health risks toxic air pollution and is working to update and strengthen Clean Air Act standards for commercial sterilizers to achieve that goal. As part of that process, EPA is reaching out to ...


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News Release: CHAPEL HILL, NC (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program ...


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News Release: Today, Civil Rights and Human Services Subcommittee Republican Leader Russ Fulcher (R-ID) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on preventing youth from encountering the juvenile justice system...


EPA Adds the Ochoa Fertilizer Co. Site in Guánica, Puerto Rico to the Superfund National Priorities List
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News Release: NEW YORK – In a move that will allow it to protect the nearby community, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that it will add the Ochoa Fertilizer Co. site in Guánica, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL), along with four other sites across the U.S. EPA will also propose two sites to the NPL, where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risk.


EPA Selects Georgia Institute of Technology as a Recipient of a Pollution Prevention Grant Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
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News Release: ATLANTA (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of Georgia Institute of Technology as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. These ...


Wyden Statement on the Biden Administration's Final Proposal to Undo the Harmful Trump-era "Public Charge" Rule
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News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on the Biden administration's final rule to ensure that noncitizens will not suffer harmful immigration consequences for receiving health and other benefits (such as nutrition assistance) they qualify for...


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News Release: GREENVILLE, NC (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of East Carolina University as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. These ...


EPA Selects the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Department for Environmental Protection as a Recipient of a Pollution Prevention Grant Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
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News Release: ATLANTA (September 8, 2022) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the selection of the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, Department for Environmental Protection as a pollution prevention (P2) grant recipient made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure ...


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News Release: (CHICAGO – September 8, 2022) Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $135,212 pollution prevention, or P2, grant to Central Michigan University. This is one of the 39 national grants made possible by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s historic $100 million program investment. ...


EPA Highlights Successes in Camden, N.J. Communities in Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
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News Release: WASHINGTON — Today U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water Bruno Pigott joined U.S Representative Donald Norcross, Camden Mayor Victor Carstarphen, EPA Region 2 Senior Advisor for Equity and Chief of Staff Olivia Glenn, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Shawn La


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News Release: (CHICAGO – September 8, 2022) Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced over $1 million in pollution prevention, or P2, grants to the University of Illinois System. The University of Illinois Chicago Energy Resources Center will receive $350,000. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...