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Oversight Accomplishments :: Environment
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducts vigorous oversight to uncover waste, fraud, and abuse, to improve the operations of the federal government, and to examine wrongdoing in the private sector. The Committee has legislative jurisdiction over federal procurement, civil service, management and information policy.
The following links describe some of the oversight accomplishments of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the 110th Congress. For a summary of the Committee's legislative accomplishments, please view the legislation page.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Administration Abandons Proposal to Weaken Air Quality Protections for National Parks
EPA announced it would not go forward with regulation that would have degraded air quality in our National Parks and other areas with clean air.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Administration Drops Effort to Roll Back Pollution Requirements for Power Plants
EPA announced that it would not go forward with the regulation that would allow older power plants to increase their emissions of air pollutants and exacerbate global warming.
Monday, June 16, 2008
EPA Begins Assessing Navajo Nation Uranium Contamination
A Committee hearing into uranium contamination on the Navajo Reservation prompted the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies to begin assessing the extent of contamination and to prepare clean up plans.
Friday, February 08, 2008
New Leadership Appointed at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
After the Committee raised questions about the conduct of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and its then-director, Dr. David Schwartz, the Director of the National Institutes of Health announced there would be a comprehensive review of Dr. Schwartz’s conduct and Dr. Schwartz resigned.
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