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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officials testified on chemical facility security. In 2013, President Obama, in response to the…

Witnesses testified at a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed regulations to cut smog and ozone pollution. Oppo…

Four former Republican Environmental Protection Agency administrators were among the witnesses at a hearing on efforts to address global climate change. The former administrators, invited by…

Environmental specialists from the fishing, forestry, farming, and wildlife sectors testified on the economic effects of climate change on wildlife and agriculture industries.Senator Jon Tes…

Administrator Gina McCarthy testified n the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed carbon pollution standards for existing power plants. In June 2014, the EPA proposed the Clean Po…

Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) testified on the recommendations of their task force created after the 2011 Fukishima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in Japan. Some o…

Environmental Protection Agency Administration Gina McCarthy testified on her agency’s fiscal year 2015 budget request. Many of the questions centered on oversight of the agency as well as c…

Witnesses testified on national, state and local perspectives on the need for federal transportation infrastructure investment and priorities for the next surface transportation authorizatio…

Federal officials and climate specialists testified on the Obama administration’s climate change policy. The plan includes a number of executive actions targeting carbon emissions, increasin…

Thomas Donohue and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka testified on federal funding for transportation infrastructure and MAP-21, the current transportation law that expires in September 2014. …

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) commissioners testified on efforts to implement the Fukushima Near-Term Task Force recommendations. The task force, formed in reaction to the nuclear powe…

West Virginia state representatives and environmental experts testified on the safety of drinking water following a January 2014 chemical leak that left several thousand West Virginia reside…

State officials, representatives from transportation industry groups, and members of national commissions testified on the status of transportation infrastructure needs in the United States …

Recent explosions at chemical plants in Texas and Louisiana killed 16 people and injured hundreds of others. Witnesses testified on ways to mitigate chemical threats and avoid future disaste…

Witnesses testified on the implementation of the Moving Ahead for Progress law that funds highways, mass transit, and other surface transportation programs for two years.

A rescheduled business meeting of the Committee on Environment and Public Works was held to consider the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agenc…

The Committee on Environment and Public Works held a business meeting to consider the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The committ…

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a meeting to vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but the…

Gina McCarthy, the president’s nominee to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. Much of the heari…

Alabama, California and Louisiana Port Authority officials testified about the state of U.S. ports and harbors. They urged Congress to change the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) to allo…