EPA Has Suspended Enforcement of Existing Clean Air, Clean Water, and Climate Rules and Used Outbreak as Cover to Continue Weakening Environmental Protections "In the midst of a respiratory disease outbreak, rolling back environmental safeguards, particularly those that protect clean air and reduce lung disease and asthma, is highly dangerous and... Read More

  Lawmakers call for voices of the fishing industry to be heard during a rapid process of assessment, allocation, and distribution of funds   Boston (April 4, 2020) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) are calling on the Commerce Department and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration... Read More

  Massachusetts lawmakers applaud bridge replacement plan, will fight for federal funding   Massachusetts (April 3, 2020) - Massachusetts Senators Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren, and Congressman William R. Keating (MA-09), today commended the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for its final “Major Rehabilitation Evaluation... Read More

Lawmakers Seek Additional VA Resources to Stop Spread of COVID-19 and Prevent Similar Outbreaks at VA-Operated Long-Term Care Facilities Across the Commonwealth Text of Letter (PDF) Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA), along with Representatives Richard E. Neal (D-MA-01) and Ayanna Pressley... Read More

  Request comes in wake of Trump Administration’s final fuel economy emissions rule that is projected to result in hundreds of additional deaths from air pollution alone   Washington (April 3, 2020) – As the country learns more about the devastating risks posed by the novel coronavirus, a group of Senators led by Senator... Read More

  Washington (April 3, 2020) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and seven of his colleagues today urged Senate leadership to include language that would preserve first responders’ access to T-band spectrum (470–512 MHz) in upcoming coronavirus economic relief legislation. Senator Markey previously introduced the Don’t... Read More

  Massachusetts lawmakers urge USDA to include U.S. seafood industry in a program to help agricultural producers affected by coronavirus crisis   Massachusetts (April 3, 2020) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Congressmen Seth Moulton (MA-06) and William Keating (MA-09) today wrote to the U.S.... Read More

  Lawmakers seek assurance that FCC will enforce new consumer protection law   Washington (April 3, 2020) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) today wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to urge it to vigorously enforce important, pro-consumer provisions in the Television Viewer... Read More

  Outline five key steps to ensure background checks don’t fall through the cracks, records are appropriately maintained, safe home storage emphasized   Washington (April 2, 2020) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) today led thirteen of their colleagues in calling... Read More

  Grocery store clerks, delivery employees, personal care attendants, police officers, and sanitation workers put health at risk to provide essential services, require protective equipment like respirator masks and gloves   Boston (April 2, 2020) – As frontline workers across the country protest unsafe working conditions and the... Read More

The current public health emergency will exacerbate a longstanding “homework gap” without immediate action by Congress   Washington (April 2, 2020) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) today led 31 of their colleagues in a letter to House... Read More

  As Trump continues to mislead public and blur lines between opinion and fact, Americans need unbiased and apolitical source of information to guide decision-making   National Academies recently convened Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases with the goal of providing rapid information to federal government   Washington... Read More

  Senators’ Letter Comes After IRS Releases Guidance that Contradicts Provisions of the CARES Act that Explicitly Give Treasury Authority to Provide Direct Assistance to Social Security Beneficiaries who Do Not File Taxes   WASHINGTON – While the CARES Act that the president signed into law last week ensured that the Treasury... Read More

  Senators agree with D.C. Circuit that net neutrality repeal is “unhinged from the realities of modern broadband service”   Washington (April 1, 2020) – Today, Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii),... Read More

WASHINGTON, March 31 — Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and nearly three dozen lawmakers in urging the Trump Administration to ease sanctions against Iran, as the country suffers from a major humanitarian crisis triggered by COVID-19. The... Read More

  In light of unprecedented industry bailout, lawmakers urge airlines to provide real refunds, not travel vouchers, to consumers that need cash during the current public health emergency   Washington (March 31, 2020) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today led a group... Read More

  Markey is author of provision in law enabling Obama administration increase to historic 54.5 mpg fuel economy emission standard   Boston (March 31, 2020) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the following statement today blasting the Trump administration’s final rule to drastically weaken the fuel economy emissions... Read More

  Senator Markey has been working to bring back in-state programming to Berkshire viewers for nearly three years   Massachusetts (March 31, 2020) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Congressman Richard E. Neal (MA-01) announced that as of today, Charter Communications cable subscribers in Berkshire... Read More

  MA received only 10% of equipment like respirators, face shields, gloves, and gowns it requested from the Strategic National Stockpile in its first shipment; 2nd shipment increased to only 17%    Washington (March 31, 2020) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) led the entire... Read More

  Current rule allows Medicare beneficiaries to receive telehealth services through video-conferencing on laptops, tablets, other devices but excludes telephone conversations   Boston (March 30, 2020) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is calling on the Centers for... Read More