Sentences with phrase «energy subcommittee»

The republican controlled House Energy subcommittee recently passed their appropriations budget where they slashed the DOE renewable energy R&D funding and transferred it to nuclear weapons research.

Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican and chairman of the energy subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has said he plans to introduce a bill to give utilities more time to comply with the rules.

Alas, Dominion got its revenge Thursday in the House Commerce & Labor energy subcommittee, where the Republican majority had clearly come prepared to kill the bills.

Sullivan's identical House bill was killed in the House energy subcommittee.)

, a conservative who had unseated Gilchrest and who then chaired the panel's energy subcommittee.

So the little people did about as well as the C&L members who aren't on the energy subcommittee, but less well than the subcommittee members.

Earlier this week, John Parmentola, senior vice president of energy and advanced concepts at General Atomics, told a House energy subcommittee that the United States needs to invest in a test bed nuclear reactor to ramp up development in the next generation of atomic energy (E&E Daily, May 14).

«If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one - in -100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years,» Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.

«Fusion appears to come out the loser here,» and that is a «concern,» Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R - NJ), the chair of the energy subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, told William Brinkman, the director of DOE's Office of Science.

Not exact matches

Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, and Amy Hess, executive assistant director for science and technology at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will testify on separate panels before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday, in addition to other law enforcement officials and technology experts.

Or, putting the matter in reverse, a subcommittee of our Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy has predicted the result of a possible attack on us, which would kill 23,000,000 Americans immediately and leave 25,900,000 others so badly injured that they would subsequently die.

A hearing last December by House Energy and Commerce subcommittee also drove home the point that the overwhelming scientific consensus is that GMO food is as safe as any other food and that a mandatory GMO warning label could be inherently misleading.

House Speaker John Boehner assigned Collins to the House Energy and Commerce Committee that includes spots on three subcommittees: Health, Communications and Technology, and Oversight and Investigations.

The head of Massey Energy Co. will testify this week before a Senate subcommittee about mine safety for the first time since an explosion killed 29 workers at his company's mine in West Virginia.

Representative Paul Tonko, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy's subcommittee on the Environment, pressed Mr. Pruitt on his claims that he was unaware that the E.P.A. had used an obscure legal provision to grant hefty raises to political appointees, bypassing approval by the White House.

«I have nothing to hide as its relates to how I've run the agency for the past 16 months,» Pruitt told the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee.

But it was BioShield's third provision that provoked widespread concern among members of two subcommittees, one from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the other from the Committee on Homeland Security, which convened jointly today for their first discussion of the legislation.

, who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee responsible for funding the Defense Department and who does not believe that warming is human - induced, has long complained that too much of DOE's budget is frittered away on programs to boost energy efficiency or alternative fuels — which he says have little to do with the military's mission.

But the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million — not including the leftover $ 240 million.

«The bill rejects the budget request's proposal to reduce investment in the energy we use today,» Representative Mike Simpson (R — ID), chair of the House energy and water subcommittee, said at the subcommittee's markup.

Although that increase may seem like small change, it represents a vote of confidence for the Office of Science, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate energy and water subcommittee, said at the Senate subcommittee markup yesterday.

The Administration had sought over five percent increases for both NSF and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and a 5.2 percent discretionary spending increase might open the door to these (as Rep. John Culberson [R - TX], chair of the NSF appropriations subcommittee, suggested back in May).

A House appropriations subcommittee late last month approved the bill, which keeps overall funding for DOE's Office of Science flat at $ 5.39 billion but imposes deep cuts on applied renewable energy programs.

Chu appointed the Energy Advisory Board subcommittee on natural gas in May after President Obama tapped Chu to make short - term recommendations that can quickly address safety and environmental concerns about extracting shale gas.

► In U.S. funding news, «both the Senate and House of Representatives appropriations subcommittees that oversee [the Department of Energy (DOE)-RSB- released spending plans that would give the Office of Science just a 0.9 % increase, to $ 5.4 billion,» Adrian Cho reported Thursday.

«My view is that shale gas development has outpaced the ability to ensure its safety,» said Fred Krupp, a member of the Energy Advisory Board subcommittee that issued the 40 - page report and president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Details about the bills are scarce, Cho noted, but «for the third year in a row the Senate panel moved to zero out spending on the United States's contribution to ITER,» «House appropriators would cut [DOE's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy] spending by 12 % to $ 1.8 billion,» and «the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million.&Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy] spending by 12 % to $ 1.8 billion,» and «the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million.&Energy] spending by 12 % to $ 1.8 billion,» and «the House energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million.&energy and water subcommittee would boost spending on the fossil fuels program by 2 % to $ 645 million.»

Although it is not the 4.2 % increase that the Obama administration proposed in February, «it represents a vote of confidence for the Office of Science, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate energy and water subcommittee, said at the Senate subcommittee markup.»

Its report will guide questioning of officials before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight subcommittee on Thursday.

The hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigations subcommittee came in response to a June incident in which CDC scientists in Atlanta moved anthrax samples they mistakenly thought were inactivated from high - containment labs to less secure ones, potentially exposing dozens of workers.

«We share the belief that development can be done in a way that results in minimal impacts,» says geophysicist Mark Zoback of Stanford University, one of seven members of the subcommittee advising Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

The subcommittee to the secretary's Energy Advisory Board was not asked who should be regulating shale gas, Zoback says.

«The cuts to clean energy programs represent a very serious backtrack,» said Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D - Ohio), the subcommittee's ranking member.

Usually deeply divided along party lines, the subcommittee came together to lavish praise on ITER, with representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), chair of the full committee, and Representative Eric Swalwell (D — CA), the ranking member on the subcommittee, agreeing that ITER was, in Swalwell's words, «absolutely essential to proving that magnetically confined fusion can be a viable clean energy source.»

«CCS technology is feasible; it is available,» she said at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

Given the situation, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D — CA), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, warned at a 9 April subcommittee hearing that the U.S. program could be in jeopardy.

FDA has not yet released a draft guidance on the matter, but at a hearing yesterday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee's health subcommittee raised questions about the agency's authority to regulate these tests, its motivation for doing so, and the potential impact of such regulations on the diagnostic industry.

Nevertheless, at a 17 June subcommittee meeting on the budget bill covering DOE, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), the ranking member on the Energy and Water Subcommittee, said that ITER hasn't shown the progress it should.

Based on that report, the Senate energy and water subcommittee moved to kill U.S. ITER in its markup of the proposed 2015 budget, giving it only $ 75 million for the year, half of what the White House had requested and just enough to wind things down.

In letters sent on 18 June, Representative Joe Barton (R - TX), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and investigations subcommittee chair James Greenwood (R - PA) asked the Commerce, Energy, and Health and Human Services departments and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others, to describe their policies on outside activities by employees and report the amounts paid since 1999.

For the complete text of the subcommittee draft of the FY 2018 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, please click here.

Rasch addressed the Subcommittees on Energy and Environment about the need for a research program to study geoengineering and how such a program might be designed.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, accompanied by EPA Chief Financial Officer Holly Greaves, testifies before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

The report was issued this month by the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations.

Rep. Frelinghuysen, who represents the 11th district of New Jersey, is in his ninth term of office and serves on the House Appropriations Committee and three key subcommittees: Energy and Water Development, Defense and Homeland Security.

There's a House subcommittee hearing today on that very question: «Energy Development On The Outer Continental Shelf And The Future Of Our Oceans.»

But somehow or other, the subcommittee on energy and the environment of the House Committee on Science and Technology today pulled off a (relatively) civil hearing on basic questions related to climate science and policy options.

In the first week of September, a U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held hearings questioning a 40 - year - old law that forms the bedrock of competition in the electricity... Read More

At 10 a.m. Eastern time, Pruitt will face the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on the Environment (live stream here).

That's why we brought our tin foil hats to yesterday's hearing, called together by the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Power subcommittee chairman Ed Whitfield (R - KY).