Washington (August 28, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) and 27 U.S. Senators and 76 members of the House of Representatives filed an Amicus Brief with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) December 2017 decision to eliminate net...
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$20 Million Awarded to MBTA to Improve Commuter Rail Safety
Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey, along with Representatives James P. McGovern, Michael Capuano, Stephen F. Lynch, Niki Tsongas, William Keating, Joseph P. Kennedy III, Katherine Clark and Seth Moulton, today announced that the U.S. Department...
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New Trump plan would increase U.S. oil consumption by 500,000 barrels a day, cause loss of 60,000 job in auto industry
Washington (August 23, 2018) – Today, all Democratic members of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee called for an immediate hearing on the Trump administration’s effort to freeze the...
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Congress continues to appropriate funding for missile defense-related activities despite lack of information about efficacy and cost effectiveness
Washington (August 22, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is calling on the Defense Department to release its long-overdue Missile Defense Review (MDR), a comprehensive review of U.S....
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Russia continues to support North Korea in ways that benefit its nuclear and military programs
Washington (August 21, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the East Asia Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after the United States announced new sanctions...
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“Dirty Power Plan” would release 12 times more climate change-causing carbon pollution into air and environment than Obama Clean Power Plan
Washington (August 21, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and Chair of the Senate Climate Change Task Force,...
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Senator Markey releases new report that details questionable travel insurance marketing practices for policies that overpromise and under-deliver
Washington (August 21, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today released a new report on his investigation into the travel insurance industry that reveals that air travelers...
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Washington (August 17, 2018) – With new federal data showing a continued increase in opioid overdose deaths from 42,000 in 2016 to a provisional estimate of 49,000 in 2017, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today expressed concern that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ignored red flags that may have resulted in inappropriate...
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Fall River Fire Dept. Awarded Nearly $1.4M in Federal Funds
Washington (August 17, 2018) - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey, along with Representatives Stephen F. Lynch, William Keating, Joseph P. Kennedy III and Seth Moulton, announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded eight fire...
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Washington (August 17, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Tom Carper (D-DE), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Kamala Harris (D-CA), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) have submitted a comment to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the agency’s...
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Washington (August 16, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today joined Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in urging leading technology companies to ensure publication of 3-D gun printing materials, which violate their terms of service, is not allowed...
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Queries major electric utilities, federal agencies and others about recent cyberattacks, potential cyber-vulnerabilities, and security protocol
Boston (August 13, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on East Asia, The Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, today queried...
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Wants more information on relationship, as well as integrity of loan program that funds nuclear power plant construction
Washington (August 10, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, this week called on the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide more information about a...
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Current standards set for 2020 will save American consumers billions, reduce energy consumption
Washington (August 10, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, called on the Department of Energy (DOE) not to rescind lightbulb efficiency standards that are saving...
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10 U.S. nuclear power plants have announced plans to begin decommissioning between 2019 and 2050
Washington (August 7, 2018) – In a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) expressed concern over the...
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TSA working group acknowledges that screening cuts would introduce a “small (non-zero) undesirable increase in risk” to the flying public and our loved ones on the ground
Washington (August 2, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today sent a letter to...
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New data indicates NHTSA launched only 13 auto defect investigations in 2017, an all-time low
Washington (August 2, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee members, today reintroduced the Early Warning Reporting System Improvement Act, which...
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Promotes healthy and fair competition among commercial space businesses
Washington (August 2, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce Space, Science and Competitiveness Subcommittee praised unanimous passage this week of the Space Frontier Act, legislation he introduced with Subcommittee...
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Washington (August 2, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Bob Casey (D-Penn.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today introduced legislation, the Don’t Break Up the T-Band Act of 2018, that would repeal a provision of the 2012 Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation...
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Senator Markey is House author of provision in 2007 energy legislation that enabled Obama administration’s historic 54.5 mpg standard
Washington (August 2, 2018) – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today released the proposed rule rolling back the fuel...
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