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

  Washington (July 30, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement on the passing of Congressman Ron Dellums.   “Ron Dellums was an icon, an iconoclast, and a public servant without equal,” said Senator Markey. “Ron’s office was across the hall from mine in the House of... Read More

Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey, along with Representatives Richard E. Neal, James P. McGovern, Michael E. Capuano, Stephen F. Lynch, and Joseph P. Kennedy III, Seth Moulton and Katherine Clark announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded eighteen fire departments in... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – July 27, 2018 – The Lowell and Fitchburg Fire Departments have been awarded over $1.4 million in federal funding through the Assistance to Firefighter Grant (AFG) program.   The Lowell Fire Department will receive $917,007 to be used to purchase a firefighter breathing apparatus, firefighter protective gear,... Read More

  Beginning today, settlement would allow downloadable firearms blueprints to be posted online for unlimited distribution to anyone, including terrorists and criminals   Washington (July 27, 2018) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was today joined by his colleagues in calling... Read More

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Ed Markey, D-Mass., today sought details from 39 federal law-enforcement agencies about their use facial recognition technology, and what policies, if any, they have put in place to prevent abuse and misuse.   “As [facial recognition] technologies have... Read More

  Whitehouse, Merkley, Cardin, Van Hollen, Markey & Schatz: FERC is ‘effectively taking the position that carbon pollution has no cost to society.  That is clearly wrong.’ ***READ THE SENATORS’ COMMENT LETTER HERE***   Washington, DC – Six senators have lodged a formal argument with the Federal Energy... Read More