Sentences with phrase «public works committee»

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee conducts an oversight hearing on EPA enforcement and compliance programs, while the Homeland Security Committee examines the use of agency regulatory guidance.

Brownfields cleanup — The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in early 2000 could mark up an NAR - supported bill, S. 1090, to provide cleanup liability relief for innocent property owners of contaminated land and promote redevelopment of brownfields.

, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Sen. John Barrasso (R - Wyo.)

On Wednesday, June 10, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11 - 9 along party lines to advance a measure to kill the Obama administration's controversial water rule.

From ClimateScienceWatch: «Senator James Inhofe, ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has gone a step beyond promoting his long - notorious global warming denialist propaganda.

As a spokesman for Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Mr. Morano was for years a ceaseless purveyor of the dissenting view on climate change, sending out a blizzard of e-mail to journalists covering the issue.

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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing started tamely enough, with Sessions questioning the EPA's request for a budget increase of 6 percent.

Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California and chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, responded on Wednesday with a vigorous defense of the Clean Air Act and other landmark environmental laws.

This draft testimony was substantially cut by the White House before Dr. Gerberding was allowed to testify before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on October 23.

moved that bill out of her Environment and Public Works Committee last November before the UN global warming pow - wow in Copenhagen.

The head of the Public Works Committee tells the National Post:

Denzil Minnan - Wong, the conservative chair of the public works committee, has been a reluctant champion of BIXI by posing for photo - ops when BIXI launched, saying «But now that it's here, you've got ta support it».

Clinton delivered her opposition in person and Obama by letter as the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held its first hearing on Yucca Mountain since Democrats took over Congress in January.

Public Works Committee chair Jaye Robinson agrees that better efforts toward education are needed.

The US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Ranking Minority Member strongly criticized Environmental Protection Agency Administrator E. Scott Pruitt's plans to adopt a «back to basics» process for reviewing the federal Clean Air Act's National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Holmstead's controversial appointment was blocked by Senators until staff from the Environment and Public Works Committee could review documents to investigate conflict of interest concerns.

The Senate's previous hearing was held by the Environment and Public Works Committee, where the chairwoman, Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, expressed anxiety about the vulnerability of reactors in her seismically active state.

Last week, on the Senate floor, Senator Jim Inhofe (R - OK), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, delivered remarks in advance of Earth Day on the unattainability of the U.S. climate commitments.

I noted last Wednesday that James Inhofe, outgoing chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, held a hearing on «Climate Change and the Media.»

Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Barbara Boxer of California, said, «Today's hearing is the kickoff of a historic Senate effort to pass legislation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil, create millions of clean energy jobs, and protect our children from pollution.»

The Environment and Public Works Committee kicked off the hearings this week with testimonies from the likes of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, and the EPA's Lisa Jackson.

This graph appears similar to one presented by Roy Spencer in his written testimony before the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last July.

That's made McCarthy a top target for Senate Environment and Public Works Committee member John Barrasso of Wyoming — the nation's biggest producer of coal.

In a two - hour speech on July 28 on the Senate floor, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who is chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said:

Morano joined the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee as the majority Communications Director in June 2006 after a decade and a half as a working journalist, documentary maker, radio talk show host, and national television correspondent.

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Jim Inhofe, the chair of the Senate environment and public works committee, who holds views on global warming outside the scientific mainstream, said he would continue to scrutinise Obama's climate agenda.

S&R contacted Matt Dempsey, communications director for Inhofe at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, for comment.

I've read the written testimony from Judith Curry before a recent meeting of the Environment and Public Works committee of the U.S. Senate.

«STATEMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE Roy W. Spencer, PhD Earth System Science Center The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville, Alabama 35801 18 July 2013 ″

Appearing Thursday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, McCarthy said, «As the President made clear, we must take steps to combat climate change.

In response, Senator James Inhofe (R - OK), Ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee wrote a letter in February, 2010, to the National Science Foundation's Office of Inspector General (OIG) asking them to conduct their own, independent investigation of Professor Michael Mann.

«After nearly three years serving Senator Inhofe on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), the opportunity now exists to essentially turn the award - winning Inhofe EPW Press blog into a comprehensive climate and eco-news information center.

«Hansen has lost a lot of credibility ever since he's moved to be more of an activist than a scientist,» said Matt Dempsey, communications director for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Minority office, which Inhofe leads.

Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican who will step down as chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee in January, told a news conference, «The idea that the science (on global warming) is settled is altogether wrong.»

, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, explained to POWER in a concise statement: «Restarting the licensing process for Yucca Mountain would reach new heights of scientific irresponsibility.»

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D - Calif., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D - R.I., and others are planning stepped - up efforts to raise the topic's visibility.

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He said he is working closely with Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D - Calif.)

Led by Sen. James Inhofe, who has called climate change «the greatest hoax» committed against humanity, the powerful Environment and Public Works Committee plans to explore a wide range of measures that would slow or halt Environmental Protection Agency rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R - Okla.)

At the same time, the Environment and Public Works committee will question Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

WASHINGTON — American Energy Alliance President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement after Senate Democrats boycotted the Environment and Public Works Committee's vote on Scott Pruitt's nomination to lead the EPA:

Dr. von Storch's resignation was publicly disclosed Tuesday by Sen. James Jeffords (I., Vt.), a critic of the administration's environmental policies, during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee called by its chairman, Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.).

Our previous post, and one the week before looked at the arguments emerging from climate activists about what to make of the existence of an email news circular, operated by Marc Morano, the Communications Director at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, under Republican Senator James Inhofe.

Another Friday News Dump: State Department Paves Way for Keystone XL Approval — Senator Barbara Boxer (D - CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement:

Harry Alford also testified at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on June 23, 2015 to oppose the EPA's Clean Power Plan.

Marc Morano, the communications director for the Republican minority on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has been sending out e-mail alerts, sometimes several a day, highlighting stories on winter weather and other surveys suggesting a shift in public attitudes.

Most notably, Senator James Inhofe will most likely again be chairing the powerful Environment and Public Works Committee.