New bill would permanently authorize Southeast New England Program & Boost Multi-State Watershed Cleanup, Conservation, & Ecosystem Improvements SNEP Authorization Act would put $150 million on tap for public-private efforts to safeguard local watersheds in southern New England Washington (April 21, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey... Read More

Statements of Support (PDF) Washington (April 21, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, and the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee—today announced the introduction of a package of legislation during Earth Week... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (April 20, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), members of the Environment and Public Works Committee, led 15 colleagues in a letter requesting that the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations legislation include language that would prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to implement... Read More

Bill Text (PDF) Washington (April 16, 2026) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), along with Representative Jahana Hayes (CT-05), today reintroduced the YouthBuild for the Future Act to reauthorize the YouthBuild program, a national program that connects young people ages 16 to 24, who are neither working nor in school, with education, workforce... Read More

Bill Text (PDF) | One-Pager (PDF) Washington (April 16, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and author of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Representative Debbie Dingell (MI-06), and Representative Brian... Read More

Trump administration forces old fossil fuel power plants to stay online without real emergency need, while ratepayers foot the bill Bill Text (PDF) | One-Pager (PDF) Washington (April 16, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today introduced his No Big Fossil Bailouts on Your Power Bill... Read More

Washington (April 15, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement after voting in favor of the war powers resolution introduced by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.). The vote failed 47-52. “Trump’s war of choice in Iran is a moral tragedy and economic disaster playing out before our eyes. It is only making the United... Read More

Washington (April 15, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today voted in favor of the joint resolutions of disapproval introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Senator Markey delivered remarks condemning arms sales to Israel as Trump’s Iran war rages on. The resolutions were voted down 40-59 and 36-63. Below is an excerpt from his... Read More

Bill Text (PDF) Washington (April 15, 2026) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (IL-03) today announced the introduction of their Equal Tax Act, legislation that would make the tax code more equitable by taxing investment income at the same rate as ordinary labor income and by closing other common loopholes used by... Read More

As Trump administration actions cause massive increases in energy costs, Markey, colleagues urge Senate appropriators to prohibit taxpayer funds from being used to prevent clean energy construction Letter Text (PDF) Washington (April 14, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today led his... Read More

Washington (April 14, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today slammed Republicans on the Committee for voting against his amendment that condemned President Donald Trump's genocidal threats against Iran and its 90 million people. Last week, President Trump threatened “a whole... Read More

Amicus Brief (PDF) Washington (April 14, 2026) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) yesterday led 26 Senators and 157 Representatives in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Miot v. Trump, a consolidated case... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Boston (April 9, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today led Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representatives Jim McGovern (MA-02), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Stephen Lynch (MA-08), and Bill Keating (MA-09) in writing to President Donald Trump and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)... Read More

Boston (April 7, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement calling for the Congress to remove President Donald Trump from office after threatening “a whole civilization will die” if Iran and the United States do not reach a deal to end the war that Trump started. “With each passing day, it becomes increasingly... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (April 2, 2026) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representatives Jim McGovern (MA-02), Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Katherine Clark (MA-05), Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), and Stephen Lynch (MA-08) wrote to Tammy Hull, Inspector General of the United States Postal Service (USPS), demanding... Read More

Roadmap (PDF) Washington (April 1, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today released a discussion draft of his “Ratepayer Roadmap,” a three-part plan to deliver lower energy bills for families in Massachusetts and across America. Since January 2025, home electricity prices have risen by... Read More

Report (PDF) | Responses from Automakers (PDF) | Letter to NHTSA (PDF) Washington (March 31, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today published a report, Remote Backseat Operators: Revealing the Autonomous Vehicle Industry’s Reliance on Human Remote Assistance Operators, that... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (March 31, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today wrote to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum in opposition to the Trump administration’s... Read More

Letter Text (PDF) Washington (March 30, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today wrote to Postmaster General David Steiner, objecting to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) decision to raise postage rates in response to surging gasoline prices due to Trump’s illegal war on Iran. The Trump administration’s illegal war against Iran has... Read More

Bill Text (PDF) Washington (March 25, 2026) - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chairs of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, today reintroduced the No Nuclear Weapons for Saudi Arabia Act, legislation that would mandate that any nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia can go into... Read More