Vitter Applauds Group Suing Administration for Creating “Critical Habitat” for Frogs in St. Tammany Parish
(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today applauded a watchdog organization that litigates for private property rights and a balanced approach to environmental regulations. The Pacific Legal Foundation is challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for designating 1,544 acres of private... Read More
Vitter, Issa & Smith Expose EPA’s Attempt to Hide Emails, Call for Further Investigation
(Washington, D.C.) - Today, a group of top Republicans asserted that the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) is inappropriately using an exemption clause in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in an attempt to hide the alias(es) used by the Administrator. U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republic... Read More
Vitter, Sessions Question EPA Air Regulation Rule Over Human Testing
( Senator David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and fellow Committee member Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) in a letter today urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the science behind an economically significant new rule tight... Read More
Vitter, Bipartisan Group of Senators Oppose EPA’s Tier 3 Gasoline Regulations
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today Senator David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led five Senators in a bipartisan letter urging President Obama not to move forward with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal for Tier 3 regulations addressing the su... Read More
Vitter leads 23 Republicans urging full accounting in Endangered Species Rules Change
(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican of the Environment and Public Works Committee, led a group of 23 Senators questioning the administration on how the proposed changes to economic impact analyses required by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) could potentially hide the true i... Read More
Vitter: EPA Ignoring Reality on Renewable Fuels Standard
(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican of the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding today’s announcement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the 2013 Renewable Fuels Standards (RFS) and the required volume o... Read More
Vitter, Issa Investigate EPA’s Transparency Problem, More Suspicious E-mail Accounts
(Washington, D.C.) - In a joint letter sent today, Senator David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, questioned James Martin, Region 8 Adminis... Read More
Vitter Warns Louisiana of EPA’s Secret “Sue and Settle” Deals, Could Impact State
U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is warning of more secret “sue and settle” deals with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and environmental groups. In a letter today, Vitter encourages Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell to join the 13 states’ AGs who recently f... Read More
Vitter Applauds Virginia’s Victory Against EPA Overreach
(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator David Vitter celebrated the Commonwealth of Virginia’s victory against the EPA’s attempt to regulate water as a pollutant, which would have vastly expanded their jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act. “We’ve seen the EPA’s overreach in a... Read More
Vitter Committee Assignments, Named Top Republican on Environment Committee
(Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator David Vitter announced his U.S. Senate committee assignment for the 113th Congress. Vitter will take over as the top ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which has jurisdiction over the upcoming Water Resources Development Act, leve... Read More
