The House has voted 317 times in the 112th Congress to block action to address climate change, to halt efforts to reduce air and water pollution, to undermine protections for public lands and coastal areas, and to weaken the protection of the environment in other ways. The Democratic staff of the Energy and Commerce Committee has released a report with an updated analysis of the anti-environment record of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress and provided a searchable database of the anti-environment votes.
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Hon. Henry A. Waxman
Rep. Henry A. Waxman is the Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman released the following statement on the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) announcement that it will propose rules to lower prison phone rates:
Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman issued the following statement about a new report on toxic coal ash disposal from the Environmental Integrity Project:
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman released the following statement on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) release of its new Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule:
Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus to highlight a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report on H.R. 2273, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, which passed out of the Energy and Commerce Committee earlier this year. The CRS report explains that the coal ash legislation fails to accomplish the goals the Chairmen set during the Committee’s consideration of the legislation.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman today released the following statement praising the decision by the Administration not to sign a telecommunications treaty being negotiated at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) because it would seek to expand government control over the Internet:
Today Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman and Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby L. Rush sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Ed Whitfield to request a hearing on the PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Low Carbon Economy Index report on the necessary rate of decarbonization to limit global warming. The report found that to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world will need to decarbonize its economy at the very challenging and unprecedented rate of 5.1% per year.