No Longer Left in the Dark, Union Workers Will Be Able to Resume Working Throughout Eastern Massachusetts and Support Their Families Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) are pleased that on Monday, members of United Steelworkers Locals 12003 and 12012 at National Grid of... Read More

Washington (January 4, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Columbia Gas of Massachusetts and its parent company NiSource reminding them of their responsibility to repair the more than 70 miles of damaged roads in Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover that were dug up as a result of... Read More

  Washington (January 3, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, which has jurisdiction over the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), released the following statement. Due to the Trump-caused government shutdown, the NTSB investigation into the September... Read More

Authorizes New Funds and Programs to Strengthen US Alliances and to Counter Chinese Influence in the Indo-Pacific Washington, DC – The Asia Reassurance Initiative Act of 2018, authored by Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific,... Read More

Farm Bill Includes Key Warren, Markey Provisions   Warren and Markey Also Condemn Trump Administration Work Requirements for SNAP   Washington (December 21, 2018) - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) applauded the final passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, which President Trump signed into law... Read More

Menthol is a public health menace that has contributed to youth smoking initiation and has exacerbated health disparities, particularly for African Americans   More than half of youth e-cigarette users use mint and menthol flavored e-cigarettes Washington (December 21, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray... Read More

Washington (December 21, 2018) - Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity, today reflected on the Subcommittee’s work in the 115th Congress and celebrated their success in... Read More

  Resolution urges Trump administration to make a determination on whether crimes committed by the Burmese military amount to genocide, encourages sanctions against responsible senior Burmese military officials    Washington (December 19, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.),... Read More

  Bill would strengthen Congressional oversight of any civil nuclear cooperation between U.S. and Saudi Arabia   Washington (December 19, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Congressman Brad Sherman (CA-30), a member of the House Foreign... Read More

Washington (December 19, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after the Senate passed the sentencing reform bill, the First Step Act. The United States has 2.2 million people in the nation’s prisons and jails, as well as the highest prison population rate in the world.   “The First... Read More

Potential children’s privacy and consumer protections violations alleged after review of Google Play store by experts   Washington (December 19, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.), members of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today called on the... Read More

Washington, DC – Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt lacked a sufficiently open mind to legally preside over changes to vital protections against the powerful greenhouse gas methane; his involvement in the proposal to tear down those protections violated federal ethics rules; and that proposal amounts to an... Read More

  Report highlights 114 Trump administration actions – more than one per week – to block climate action, weaken bedrock environment and public health rules    Washington (December 17, 2018) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chairs of the Senate Climate Change Task Force, today... Read More

FCC already approved proposal that could weaken so-called “KidVid” rules   Boston (December 17, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA.), a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the author of the Children’s Television Act, today led eight of this colleagues in calling on the Federal... Read More

Columbia Gas reportedly cut down critical oversight department and ignored staff concerns   Washington (December 16, 2018) – Massachusetts Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren this week asked Columbia Gas to respond to reports that the company had drastically cut resources for the department responsible for monitoring the... Read More

At COP24, international community  forges a path towards transparency, implementation   Boston (December 15, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Climate Change Task Force and member of the Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after international negotiators at the United Nations... Read More

Media report reveals Johnson & Johnson may have known about presence of toxic substance in products for decades but concealed information   Boston (December 14, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today queried the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about reports that... Read More

Senators advocate that fishermen’s interest be considered earlier in the siting process   Washington, D.C. (December 14, 2018) – Today, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Jack Reed (D-R.I.) sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) urging the agency... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) led a bipartisan, bicameral letter from eight members of the United States Congress congratulating Armenia on its historic elections that took place on Sunday. Since early 2017, Armenia... Read More

  Washington (December 12, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today after Columbia Gas of Massachusetts announced that restoration of gas service to residences and businesses in the Merrimack Valley is “substantially complete”.   “I still have many questions that remain... Read More