Senate EPW Democrats
@EPWCmte
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works | Ranking Member @SenWhitehouse
The fossil fuel industry will make a fortune off the Big Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill. And American families will have to pay.
WATCH: Ranking Member @SenWhitehouse leads EPW Dems in evaluating EPA, CEQ nominees. Jeffrey Hall—the nominee to lead EPA’s environmental law enforcement—is a MAGA hack chosen for his willingness to bend the knee to polluters.
For decades, the Office of Research and Development has led the way in protecting Americans from dangerous pollutants. Lee Zeldin, Trump's EPA chief, just eliminated the office.
From Providence to Phoenix, the next transportation bill must and will invest in our communities, while taking climate change seriously. Thanks @MayorGallego for sharing your expertise with us today.
.@MayorGallego is right. We must invest in resilient infrastructure. The next reauthorization bill must and will take climate change seriously.
Caught up with @MayorGallego before the @EPWCmte. She’s here to talk about what growing cities like Phoenix need to build world-class roads, bridges, and public transit. Always happy to have Arizona leaders in DC.
We must make investments in our transportation systems that reduce emissions, prioritize safety, bolster resilience, and meet communities' needs. But it will be impossible to accomplish this until the Trump Admin ends its assault on the rule of the law.
Fossil fuel dark money is pulling the strings.
Increased political interference at @NRCgov is threatening a safe future nuclear energy fleet. We need a chairman that will retain and attract top experts.
The Trump Admin launched an all-out assault on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which helps lower energy bills and makes communities more climate resilient. Now, it claims the Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill can rescind obligated funds. Another lie to serve the polluters.
Is this the same "cooperative federalism" that stripped California's right to protect their clean air?
Under @epaleezeldin, EPA is advancing cooperative federalism with state and local partners to ensure clean air, land and water is available to all Americans! Powering the Great American Comeback is essential to this new Golden Age of America.
We face many hurdles in the climate fight, but we have one major advantage: the facts are on our side.
575,000 words. One consistent warning: the climate crisis is here. Tomorrow night, I deliver my 300th speech in my Time to Wake Up series.
One nominee comes from a fossil fuel company central to a backroom deal between Trump and Big Oil companies. The other committed to uphold NRC independence, but DOGE infiltration under his watch shows he may not be the leader the agency needs.