“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,... Read More

  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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

  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... Read More

  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... Read More

  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... Read More

  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... Read More

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... Read More

  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... Read More

  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... Read More

  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... Read More

  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... Read More

  Freezing current standards would mean an additional 2.2 billion metric tons of global warming pollution by 2040, equal to 43 coal-fired power plants   Washington (August 1, 2018) – At an Environment and Public Works (EPW) hearing today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler admitted to Senator... Read More

  Yesterday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to stop the online publication of blueprints for 3D printed guns that could be downloaded by anyone around the world, including terrorists   VIDEO: https://bit.ly/2v6VExy   Washington (August 1, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate... Read More

  EPW members expect answers on protecting vital ocean and coastal resources to earn their support   Washington, DC – Senate Oceans Caucus Co-Chair Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and fellow Oceans Caucus members Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) pressed President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the White House’s... Read More

  TSA program monitors innocuous traveler behavior such as whether a person slept on their plane, used the bathroom, or obtained a rental car   Washington (July 31, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, this week questioned the Transportation Security... Read More

  Washington, D.C. –Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., with Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., today asked the Government Accountability Office to study both commercial and government use of facial recognition to determine the potential market,... Read More