WASHINGTON, D.C. – With home heating costs skyrocketing across the country, the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee passed an amendment to the Gasoline for America’s Security Act (H. R. 3893) offered by Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) that would increase the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve from its... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 3893, The “Gasoline for America’s Security Act of 2005”- the second energy bill to come to the House floor in an 8 week period. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Democratic Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today made the... Read More

FACT CHECK: MAGIC OIL NUMBERS $9.9 BILLION- Exxon Mobile Corp. announced quarterly (3rdquarter) profits $9 BILLION- Royal Dutch Shell Plc announced quarterly profit $100 BILLION- Revenues at Exxon breached the 100 billion dollar mark for the first time. $107 BILLION–Estimated combined 2005 profits of the world's five biggest investor owned... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) responded today to the Department of Defense (DOD)’s new directive on the treatment of detainees. Rep. Markey made the following statement in response to the directive announced today that orders all detainees to be treated humanely. “While the Pentagon’s decision to... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its short-term energy and winter fuels outlook today predicting home heating cost increases up to 75%. Households across the country should expect average increases of 48% for natural gas, 32% for heating oil, and 30% for households using propane. Representative... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education urging an increase in funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – For the first time ever home heating oil prices have climbed so high that they have triggered Presidential emergency discretion to release product from the regional Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve. This has led Rep. Markey (D-MA), author of the bill that established this littlenoticed cushion against home heating oil... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today made the following statement in response to the decision by Republicans to prevent debate on the bipartisan amendment to improve the fuel economy of cars and light trucks that he submitted with Rep. Sherwood Boehlert... Read More

Washington, D.C. – In a last minute effort to attempt to save the Budget Reconciliation bill from failing, House Republicans conceded to temporarily remove the provision which permits drilling in the Arctic.  Representative Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House Resources Committee, and author of an amendment to strip the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Seven weeks ago President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law stating: “This bill will strengthen our economy and it will improve our environment, and it's going to make this country more secure. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 is going to help every American who drives to work, every family that pays a... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The lashings of Hurricane Katrina and Rita have brought the winds of change in how Americans and companies are thinking about energy efficiency. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Ford Motor company sent a letter to President Bush requesting that the President hold an energy summit... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the executives of the top five major oil companies will appear in front of lawmakers at a joint Senate Energy and Natural Resources and Commerce Committee to explain the skyrocketing cost of oil to American consumers.  Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) a senior Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House Resources Committee, responded to a report issued by Defenders of Wildlife highlighting the 10 national wildlife refuges most at risk. The report, Refuges at Risk: America’s 10 Most Endangered National Wildlife Refuges 2005, details the 10 refuges... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Senate Republicans used a backdoor maneuver to try to force drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge today, attaching the drilling provision to the 2006 annual budget. An amendment to strike the provision, offered by Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), failed narrowly by a vote of 49-51. Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), the lead... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, today released the following statement honoring the 39th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and urging passage of H.R. 4972, the “Gateway to Democracy Act,” a bill he introduced to increase youth voter registration and... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Rep. Edward Markey today released an analysis of the Bush Administration’s cuts in funding to schools in high-poverty neighborhoods in his district, calling the proposal a “bankrupt educational policy unworthy of the United States of America.” On Friday, May 21, 2004, the Education Department announced that... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), joined by Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Tom Allen (D-ME), and Lois Capps (D-CA), today demanded to know the economic basis for extremely high assumptions regarding the value of leasing mineral rights to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Current law prohibits such drilling, but... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling as part of the larger budget reconciliation bill. Representative Edward J. Markey, a senior member of the House Resources Committee, the House panel with jurisdiction over the Arctic National... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Resources Committee will use a backdoor Budget Reconciliation markup to circumvent the normal legislative process and take up a controversial provision to permit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) a senior Democrat on the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, the House Budget Committee spurned President Bush’s request to use the budget process to try to force oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA), the lead Democratic sponsor of the Udall- Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act (H.R. 567), praised the committee for their decision not to... Read More