In the United States, Bitcoin crypto-asset mining facilities produce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to seven million gasoline-powered cars  Bill Text (PDF) | Bill Summary (PDF) Washington (December 8, 2022) – Following the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sounding the alarm on... Read More

Text of Resolution (PDF) Washington (December 8, 2022) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, today introduced a resolution to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Coastal Zone Management Act, historic environmental legislation empowering U.S. states and... Read More

Washington (December 7, 2022) – Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Safety, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) celebrated the release of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), legislation that includes... Read More

More than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists descended on COP27 in Egypt last month Washington (December 7, 2022) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in a letter to the United Nations Secretary General António Guterras calling on the United Nations to require sponsors and... Read More

Washington (December 7, 2022) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, released the following statement today praising inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY23 of his bipartisan legislation to strengthen the U.S.-Taiwan... Read More

Washington (December 7, 2022) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, released the following statement today praising inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY23 of his legislative priorities outlined in the Oil Spill Response Review Act and the... Read More

Washington (December 7,2022) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), in sending a letter commenting on the Biden Administration’s proposal to reinstate the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) long-standing... Read More

Coral Reef Sustainability Through Innovation Act would help federal agencies find innovative solutions to preserve and restore coral reefs at no additional cost to taxpayers ~  Washington (December 7, 2022) - Today, during National Corals Week, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Representative... Read More

Exposure of dark money spending by federal contractors would protect against ‘quid pro quo corruption’ in federal procurement Washington (December 6, 2022) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined his colleagues in a letter led by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) to call on President Biden to issue an executive order requiring... Read More

Washington (December 6, 2022) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after the announcement from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the Administration will extend and redesignate Temporary Protect Status (TPS) for... Read More

Senators: “We request that legislation with such broad implications, impacting every state, go through the regular committee process in both chambers, where constituents and stakeholders may weigh in on the pros and cons, and where the legislation is subject to robust floor debate.”  Washington (December 6, 2022) - Senator Edward... Read More

Washington (December 2, 2022) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today joined his colleagues led by Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in introducing the Small Business Development Centers Improvement Act, legislation that aims to reauthorize and improve the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Small Business Development Centers (SBDC)... Read More

Letter is Co-Led by Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Joyce Beatty Washington (December 2, 2022) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) today in leading a letter to the heads of all United States banking regulators to call on them to improve banking access for immigrant... Read More

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington (December 1, 2022) – As automakers move swiftly to meet rising consumer demand for electric vehicles (EVs), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today sent letters to 20 car manufacturers requesting that they maintain AM radio in their... Read More

Washington (December 1, 2022) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joins Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Mazie Hirono (D- Hawaii), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) today in introducing the Small Business Development Centers... Read More

Washington (November 30, 2022) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) joined his colleagues in a letter led by Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, in urging President Joe Biden to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist convicted of murder in 1977 following a... Read More

Washington (November 30, 2022) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety, released the following statement after Massachusetts’ Energy Facilities Siting Board (EFSB) approved a special permit allowing Eversource to bypass 14 environmental... Read More

Washington (November 30, 2022) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)... Read More

Five years after genocide in Burma, thousands of Rohingya children in Bangladesh still lack access to formal educationText of Letter (PDF) Washington (November 30, 2022) – Today, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, led his colleagues Senators Ben... Read More

Text of Letter (PDF) Washington (November 30, 2022) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) stressing the need for stronger policies to avoid limiting students’ access to higher education based on their disability through the use of involuntary... Read More