Deep Cuts in Heat-trapping Emissions Still Needed, Says Congressman; Mass. Facilities Emit 18,447,000 Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide   WASHINGTON (January 11, 2012) – A new database established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to track heat-trapping emissions from power plants, industrial facilities and other sources in the... Read More

Lawmakers unsatisfied with responses of social networking site to queries about recent patent application that suggests tracking of users on other websites, using information to target advertisements WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), co-Chairmen of the Bi-partisan Congressional Privacy... Read More

Local Communities Most Impacted By October Nor’easter to Receive Aid   FRAMINGHAM, MA - In response to Governor Deval Patrick’s request of December 16, 2011 to President Barack Obama, federal disaster aid will be made available to Massachusetts communities to assist in their recovery from the October 29-30, 2011... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and current senior member of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, issued the following statement on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski’s announcement of the... Read More

Latest data indicates levels of toxic chemical rapidly increasing in the atmosphere   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee and senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa... Read More

Congressman is House author of the law requiring development of national strategy to combat and cure Alzheimer’s disease   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a draft of the first ever National Alzheimer’s Plan. Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-Chair of the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Speaking today at the release of the Strategic Defense Review, President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta outlined a new strategic approach to the nation’s defense that will move the country beyond the wars of the past decade while reducing America’s nuclear weapons forces. In October 2011,... Read More

Days before Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Congressman wrote to Commission about critical safety issues with reactor design identified by senior NRC staff member   WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to approve the final rule for... Read More

BOSTON – Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, along with Representatives Edward Markey, James McGovern, Niki Tsongas and John Olver, today announced that Massachusetts will receive $44,749,996 for major repairs to roads damaged by last summer’s deadly tornadoes and by Hurricane Irene.  The funding, provided by the U.S. Department... Read More

Massachusetts receives additional $21.8 million in Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds, raising the maximum benefit level BOSTON – Wednesday, January 4, 2012 -- The Patrick-Murray Administration today announced an additional $21.8 million for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), increasing the maximum benefit to... Read More

Medford, MA – Dennis Hui, a Malden resident, is spending his winter break from college interning in the Medford District Office of Congressman Ed Markey (D – Malden).  Dennis is a Malden resident who graduated from Malden Catholic High School.  He is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Government and a minor in... Read More

Lawmakers point to DOE analysis that shows possible shuttering, idling of Pennsylvania refineries could lead to heating fuel shortages, prices spikes for 6 million Northeast families WASHINGTON (December 27, 2011) – Concerned that new analysis by the Department of Energy (DOE) shows that decisions by ConocoPhillips and Sunoco to idle or... Read More

Shuttering, idling of ConocoPhillips and Sunoco refineries could lead to fuel shortages, prices spikes for consumers WASHINGTON (December 23, 2011) – Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), and Robert A. Brady (D-Pa.) responded to a new analysis completed today by the Department of Energy’s Energy... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and current senior member of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, issued the following statement on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) release of proposed changes to media... Read More

LIHEAP to help more than 200,000 Bay State families heat their homes this winter WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Malden) and Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) today praised the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s release of $845 million to states throughout the country through the Low Income Home Energy... Read More

(with apologies to Dr. Seuss)  “And what happened then...? “Well...in the House, they say “That the GOP’s small hearts “Grew three sizes that day! “And the minute their hearts didn't feel quite so tight, “They called to their Tea Party in the faint evening light “And they thought of the... Read More

Independence At Home model aims to reduce health care costs and hospital visits of chronically ill patients by better coordinating care   WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today released guidelines for Independence At Home (IAH), a new model for providing care to Medicare beneficiaries. Authored as... Read More

 Rep. Markey speaks on the payroll tax and unemployment insurance extension       Mr. Speaker, tax cuts delayed are tax cuts denied. Last year, just before the holidays, the House Republicans extended the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires—no strings attached. And this year, Republicans won’t even allow... Read More

EPA Would Cut Mercury Pollution and other Toxics; GOP Wants to Knife the MACT   WASHINGTON (December 21, 2011) – New standards to limit mercury and other toxics from power plants and other sources were finalized today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that will protect America’s children and pregnant mothers... Read More

As Republicans Let Taxes Increase on 160 million Americans, Markey Asks GOP: What Planet Are You On?   WASHINGTON, D.C. – Harvard scientists have for the first time discovered a planet the size of Earth around a star 950 light years away. Kepler-20f has a diameter 3 percent larger than Earth's, encouraging astronomers about... Read More