Innovative rules under attack from GOP, corporate polluters   WASHINGTON – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), chair of the U.S. Senate Climate Change Clearinghouse and member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, will defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s power plant carbon rules tomorrow at a public hearing... Read More

Lawmakers introduced bicameral legislation to promote transparency, privacy for commercial and government drone use   Washington (July 24, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representative Peter Welch (D-Vt.) today called on the Obama administration to put in place strong, enforceable rules, not simply voluntary practices, to... Read More

Washington (July 24, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey, a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), issued the following statement about the National Academy of Sciences new report about the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster. The report, which states that... Read More

Senator will convene forum in Boston in August with heads of ONDCP, NIDA, SAMHSA, and state and local officials to discuss comprehensive strategy to address opiate epidemic   Washington (July 23, 2014) – As the nation reels from a heroin and prescription drug epidemic that has resulted in drug overdoses now claiming more lives than car... Read More

Washington, DC (July 21, 2014) —Today, Congressmen Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee announced the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO)... Read More

Markey Criticizes DOI Decision to Open East Coast Waters to Oil and Gas Testing   WASHINGTON (July 18, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today criticized the decision by the Department of Interior to open up the East Coast to sonic and other geological and geophysical testing, the first step towards opening up the Atlantic coast... Read More

Chairman Markey hosts administration officials, military, climate, energy experts   WASHINGTON – The dangerous impacts of climate change and the increasing use of energy as a weapon are threats to the security of the United States and its allies. Food shortages from drought have exacerbated conflicts and contributed... Read More

(US SENATE)—Senators Ed Markey(Mass.) John Walsh (Mont), Debbie Stabenow (Mich), and Mark Pryor (Ark.) introduced the Bring Jobs Home Act to close the tax loophole for corporations that ship jobs overseas and extend tax credits to those companies that return jobs back to America.   The bill would... Read More

In wake of GM recall, Senators introduced legislation to increase transparency and earlier reporting of auto defects Washington (July 17, 2014) – Today at the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the GM recalls, GM CEO Mary T. Barra expressed her support for components of the legislation introduced by Senators... Read More

Advocates and businesses joined lawmakers today in support of letter sent to FCC’s Wheeler   Washington (July 15, 2014) – As the comment period comes to a close for the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) proposed rulemaking on its Open Internet order, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and eleven Senate Democrats are... Read More

Washington (July 14, 2014) – With the public comment period ending tomorrow on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed rulemaking on net neutrality, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) will hold a press conference on net neutrality and the need to protect... Read More

Washington (July 11, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, released the following statement after today’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Open Commission Meeting. At the meeting, the FCC took action on E-Rate program modernization and closed captioning of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey, and Representatives Richard Neal, Jim McGovern, Stephen Lynch and Bill Keating announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded a total of $1,368,830 in grants to five Massachusetts fire departments through the Assistance to Firefighters... Read More

Markey Statement on Hamas Attacks on Israel   Washington (July 9, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement today about the recent rocket attacks on Israel.    “I strongly condemn the use of rocket fire by Hamas to deliberately target and... Read More

Washington (July 9, 2014)—  In response to the damaging Hobby Lobby ruling from the Supreme Court, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) co-sponsored legislation introduced today by Senators Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) to restore the contraceptive coverage requirement guaranteed by the Affordable Care Act and... Read More

Legislation includes provisions to protect men and women who work in factories where food containers are made and packed; endorsed by major national unions and environmental health groups   Washington (July 9, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Representatives Lois Capps (D-Calif.) and Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) today introduced... Read More

Senators want FCC Chairman to modify proposals that could jeopardize program’s success   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller, IV, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Senator Edward Markey (D-MA), member of the Senate Commerce Committee, this week voiced serious concerns... Read More

Washington (July 8, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today after the Washington Post posted an internal European Union trade document calling for a legally binding rule in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership requiring the United States to automatically approve all exports of natural... Read More

Laboratory developed tests increasingly used to help diagnose conditions such as Lyme disease and cancer, and determine treatments   Washington (July 2, 2014) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) was joined today by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) in... Read More

In wake of GM recall, Senators introduced legislation to increase transparency and earlier reporting of auto defects   Washington (July 2, 2014) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today sent a letter to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requesting information about compliance... Read More