If you haven’t been following the latest speculation about the potential musical chairs on various energy committees in Congress as a result of the midterms, shame on you allow me to update you.
If Republicans take over the House, it seems likely that Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) will More…
The Obama administration is drafting a second pipeline plan, which is expected to be released in the coming days. While the first administration proposal was meant to be included in pipeline safety legislation, the second proposal will directly address leak detection regulations at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety More…
At his oil spill hearing today, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) questioned Obama administration officials about their testing of Gulf seafood.
Markey, the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee chairman, called the special hearing during the August recess after questions about the government’s research on the oil More…
Former Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton told a congressional panel today that the department, under her tenure, saw its relationship with the oil industry when permitting and licensing offshore drilling projects as one “of mutual problem solving.”
Norton’s remarks came during a House Energy & Commerce Committee joint-subcommittee hearing on More…
Momentum is building in the House to pass new regulations on the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, in which water, sand and a mixture of potentially harmful chemicals are injected into the ground in order to gain access to natural gas.
Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.), the More…
We ran a piece earlier this week noting an apparent failure of federal regulators to enforce safety laws governing the oil and coal industries, both of which have suffered deadly, high-profile accidents in the last six weeks. Today, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) put his considerable weight behind that More…
We’ve been writing for months that a major hurdle facing Democratic leaders as they merge the House and Senate heath reform proposals is what to do with the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The House has proposed to terminate CHIP at the end of 2013, citing the More…
The House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee has scheduled a hearing Wednesday to examine contentious new guidelines recommending that women get breast cancer screenings less frequently and later in life.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force caused a storm this month when it suggested that routine mammograms begin at More…
Speaking of Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) — who apparently is weighing a run for the Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) — Kate just passed along the all-time money-est Barton quote ever (and that’s saying something) about how wind power might More…
So reports The Hill, indicating that the conservative-leaning Blue Dog Democrats have struck a deal with House leaders to delay the vote until after the August recess.
In exchange for putting off a floor vote until after Labor Day, the Energy and Commerce Committee may be allowed to
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