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May 17, 2013
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy held a hearing on Friday, May 17, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building on three legislative proposals entitled the “Federal and State Partnership for Environmental Protection Act of 2013,” the “Reducing Excessive Deadline Obligations Act of 2013,” and the “Federal Facility Accountability Act of 2013...
May 16, 2013
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy held a joint hearing on Thursday, May 16, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing was titled, “The Fiscal Year 2014 Environmental Protection Agency Budget.”
May 14, 2013
Markup
The Energy and Commerce Committee held a markup on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building for opening statements on H.R. 271, Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act of 2013; H.R. 1407, Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2013, as amended by the Subcommittee on Health; and H.R. 1919, Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticals Act of 2013....
May 9, 2013
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing on Thursday, May 9, 2013, at 9:30 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing was titled, “American Energy Security and Innovation: Grid Reliability Challenges in a Shifting Energy Resource Landscape.”
May 9, 2013
Press Release
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), releasing today the third in a series of white papers examining a number of issues emerging with the current system. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) are leading this effort to review the law and its implementation and...
May 7, 2013
Hearing
The Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing was titled, “U.S. Energy Abundance: Exports and the Changing Global Energy Landscape.”
May 7, 2013
Press Release
Today, Representative Henry A. Waxman and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse sent a letter to Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Bob Perciasepe urging the Agency to reconsider its decision not to regulate methane emissions from coal mines, the fourth largest source of methane emissions in the United States. Reducing methane emissions could delay warming of the atmosphere and...
May 2, 2013
Press Release
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to establish a Blue Ribbon Commission to examine industrial chemical facility security, in light of the recent tragic explosion at the West, Texas fertilizer plant.
Apr 26, 2013
Press Release
Today, Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Anna G. Eshoo, Lois Capps, Doris O. Matsui, and Jerry McNerney sent a letter to the California Independent System Operator requesting a detailed description of the grid operator’s plan to ensure the reliability of California’s electric grid during this summer in the event that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station remains offline.
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