The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a report on former Administrator Scott Pruitt's travel costs, wrapping up one of over a dozen federal investigations of the former Administrator's tenure. The Inspector General (IG) report found that former Administrator Pruitt accrued $123,942 in improper first- and business-class travel accommodations. Furthermore, 16 of the 40 trips analyzed in the report included travel to or stops in Tulsa, Oklahoma, wh…
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Today, Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler urging him to reinstate the Particulate Matter (PM) review panel of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC). Last October, Administrator Wheeler disbanded the Particulate Matter panel, which included two dozen researchers across relevant scientific disciplines assembled to inform air pollution standards. Instead, CASAC itself - a seven-member panel lackin…
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In late March, Vice President Mike Pence announced a new presidential directive to NASA to return humans to the surface of the moon by 2024, accelerating the mission timeline by 4 years. In order to fund the acceleration of this mission, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released an amendment to the President's FY 2020 NASA budget proposal requesting that Congress appropriate an additional $1.6 billion for the first year of this program, now named Artemis.
Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johns…
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Today, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's Subcommittee on Environment is marking up H.R. 1237, the "COAST Research Act of 2019", H.R. 1716, the "Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2019", H.R. 1921, the "Ocean Acidification Innovation Act of 2019", and H.R. 988, the "NEAR Act of 2019."
Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's (D-TX) opening statement for the record is below.
Good afternoon and thank you to Chair Fletcher for holding this markup to advance legislatio… Continue Reading
Today, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's Subcommittee on Environment is marking up H.R. 1237, the "COAST Research Act of 2019", H.R. 1716, the "Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2019", H.R. 1921, the "Ocean Acidification Innovation Act of 2019", and H.R. 988, the "NEAR Act of 2019."
Chair of the Subcommittee on Environment, Rep. Lizzie Fletcher's (D-TX), opening statement for the record is below.
Welcome to our first Environment Subcommittee markup. Today, … Continue Reading
Today, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is testifying before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology at a hearing titled, "A Review of the NASA FY 2020 Budget Request."
Chair of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Rep. Kendra Horn's (D-OK), opening statement for the record is below.
Good morning and thank you, Chairwoman Johnson, for holding this hearing to review NASA's Fiscal Year 2020 budget request, and welcome, Administrator Bridenstine.
I want to start by expr… Continue Reading