House Lawmakers Holding Recess Hearing on Oil Spill
A key subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow in an attempt to sort out varying accounts of the amount of oil that
Jul 31, 202087.6K Shares2.3M Views
A key subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow in an attempt to sort out varying accounts of the amount of oil that has been taken care of in the Gulf of Mexico. The hearing will also touch on seafood safety, another big issue now that shrimpers in Louisiana have gone back to work.
Expect Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), the chairman of the subcommittee, and Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the full committee chairman, to go after officials from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency over the report released last week that said much of the oil in the Gulf has been dispersed or cleaned up. The University of Georgia released yesterday a reportcountering those claims, arguing that up to 79 percent of the oil in the Gulf “remains a threat to the ecosystem” there.
At the same time, the committee has invited an official from the Food and Drug Administration, as well as representatives from the seafood industry to talk seafood safety. While Louisiana opened up its waters to shrimping this week, the Washington Post noted yesterday that fishermen are concernedthat any discovery of tainted seafood could severely hobble the industry.
Paula M. Graham
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