2016 Senate Dems Introduce Legislation to End Big Bailouts for Big Oil Hold Companies Accountable for Disastrous Oil Spill Damages EWARK N J U S Senators... Read More

Six years ago during the BP oil spill, I discovered that Big Oil companies had included plans to evacuate walruses from the Gulf of Mexico, even though walruses hadn’t called the Gulf home for three million...to require that full and complete copies of pipeline oil spill response plans are provided to Congress. When it comes to oversight of our nation’s oil pipelines by Congress, API doesn’t stand for the American...with me in the coming weeks to ensure that Congress has the ability to conduct... Read More

sense for the Interior Department to hold new lease sales in the Arctic at the same time that the oil industry is relinquishing its current leases and is in the process of pulling back from any plans to... Read More

WASHINGTON (February 22, 2013) – One of two Arctic drilling ships employed by Shell Oil does not have proper propulsion to handle all expected weather conditions, has engine trouble, and multiple fire... Read More

May 20 2016 BICAMERAL BIPARTISAN DEAL REACHED ON TSCA REFORM WASHINGTON A bipartisan bicameral group of Congressional leaders announced today that an agreement on reforming the Toxic Substances Control Ac... Read More

barrels of oil. The report highlights issues dealing with the company’s Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP), including the fact that the OSRP did not adequately consider a culvert that allowed oil to flow to...redactions. Last year, Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a leading Congressional investigator of the BP oil spill, joined California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein in calling on PHMSA to provide... Read More

steps you have already taken to protect the Atlantic Ocean from the harmful consequences of offshore oil and gas development,” write the Senators in the letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Interior... Read More

"Our nation’s oil stockpile is supposed to be there to protect American consumers and our security in the event of an emergency, not to be used as a piggybank to fund other priorities. But if we are going...going to sell oil from our stockpile, we should protect taxpayers by ensuring that we do not buy high and sell low. We should buy and sell strategically to get the best deal for taxpayers and drive down... Read More

March 15 2016 Markey Praises Protection of Atlantic Coast in Offshore Oil Drilling Plan East Coast Senators last year introduced legislation to percent Atlantic... Read More

The need to update our old, leaking, dangerous, and polluting natural gas pipelines is long overdue,” said Senator Markey. “Aging infrastructure is costing Massachusetts consumers money and putting our first responders and our climate at risk. Repairing these aging and leaking natural gas pipelines is a win for safety, a win for job creation, a win for consumers who have to pay for this lost gas and a win for the climate. This important legislation passed despite the strong objections of the... Read More