EPA revised final determination says standards are “wrong” and “too high”   Washington (April 2, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and Chair of the Senate Climate Task Force, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency... Read More

EPA has reportedly sent rollback to White House for review   Washington (March 30, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and Chair of the Senate Climate Task Force, released the following statement after reports that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sent a draft of... Read More

43 Senators will oppose any Senate effort to pass discriminatory House-passed bill that would gut enforcement of the bipartisan Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)   Washington (March 29, 2018)  – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) joined Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and 41 of their colleagues in writing to Senate Majority Leader... Read More

Washington (March 29, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today urged the State Department to increase pressure on the Honduran government to uphold the fundamental human rights of all its citizens, including those who exercise their rights to protest. The United Nations High... Read More

Effort would undermine national security, consumer savings, and climate pollution reductions   Washington (March 26, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and Chair of the Senate Climate Task Force, released the following statement after media reported that the Environmental... Read More

This flu season, lawmaker introduced legislation for increased investment in enhanced research for universal flu vaccine development   Boston (March 23, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today applauded inclusion of $100 million towards the development of a universal flu vaccine in the fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill. The... Read More

Lawmakers are authors of INTERDICT Act, the law that provides U.S. Customs and Border Protection the latest in chemical screening devices and scientific support to detect and intercept fentanyl and other synthetic opioids at the border         Washington (March 23, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey... Read More

Since 2013, Senator Markey has introduced legislation to provide $10 million a year for six years to conduct or support research on firearms safety and gun violence prevention at the CDC   Boston (March 23, 2018) – After the Senate yesterday passed a budget for the remainder of 2018, increasing funding for the Centers for Disease Control... Read More

BUILD Act reauthorizes EPA’s Brownfields program through 2023 and provides funding to spur cleanups in small communities, rural areas and disadvantaged areas   WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.),... Read More

Washington (March 22, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Lt. General H. R. McMaster as his National Security Advisor and the appointment of former United Nations Ambassador John... Read More

Washington (March 22, 2018) – Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-17) introduced a bill to foster clean technology and advanced manufacturing.  The Consortia-Led Energy and Advanced Manufacturing Networks Act would create clean technology and advanced manufacturing consortia to serve as commercialization centers to enhance our... Read More

Reiterate call for Mark Zuckerberg to come to Congress and testify under oath   Washington (March 22, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today called on Facebook to answer questions about its role in and response to the troubling... Read More

Senators previously sent a letter calling on the FCC to create and make available a database of reassigned telephone numbers   WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), author of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991,... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) introduced the Eliminating Opioid-Related Infectious Diseases Act of 2018, S.2579, to address increased rates of infectious diseases caused by substance use disorders. This legislation would authorize the Centers for Disease... Read More

At hearing today, Senator Markey questioned NRC Chairwoman about staff attendance at meeting last month in London with Secretary Perry   VIDEO: http://bit.ly/2prCO0m   Washington (March 21, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) and Foreign Relations Committees, today demanded... Read More

Salem, MA. - Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), and Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (D-MA) introduced legislation in both the House of Representatives and the United States Senate that would eliminate the funding authorization sunset provision and the total funding cap for the Essex National Heritage Area. When Congress... Read More

Washington (March 19, 2018) – With reports that a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona was killed overnight by an autonomous vehicle operated by Uber, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement. Senator Markey is a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and has been working with Senate and Committee... Read More

Boston (March 19, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today as President Donald Trump travels to New Hampshire to announce his initiative to stop opioid abuse and reduce drug supply and demand.   “After insulting its residents by once calling New Hampshire a ‘drug-infested den’,... Read More

Download “Automaker Report Card” here   [WASHINGTON, DC] – Ahead of a Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security hearing to review the status of the Takata airbag recall, U.S. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released a comprehensive... Read More

Boston (March 19, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today called on committee leadership to immediately hold a hearing on the reported use of more than 50 million Facebook users’ private information by the firm Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that... Read More