Environment

Deterioration of the Nation's Clean Water Act Enforcement Program Administration Abandons Proposal to Weaken Air Quality Protections for National Parks Administration Drops Effort to Roll Back Pollution Requirements for Power Plants Chairman Waxman Reveals EPA Record of Court Losses, Opposes Legally Flawed Rule to Weaken Pollution Controls Committee to Hold Hearing on Implementation and Enforcement of the Clean Water Act EPA Provides Analyses of Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Transportation Chairman Waxman Sets Deadline for EPA Clean Water Documents Chairman Waxman Releases Statement on Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant Announcement New Source Review Rule Could Worsen Global Warming Chairman Waxman Presses EPA for Clean Water Documents Chairman Waxman Requests Assurance that EPA Will Not Hurt Air Quality in National Parks Internal EPA Document Shows 500 Enforcement Cases Adversely Affected Chairman Waxman Responds to EPA and OMB EPA Begins Assessing Navajo Nation Uranium Contamination Agencies Submit 5-year Action Plan for Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation Chairman Waxman Schedules Contempt Vote New Power Plant Rules Could Increase Pollution and Exacerbate Global Warming Committee Holds Hearing on EPA's New Ozone Standards White House Overruled EPA Administrator on Ozone Regulation White House Involved in California Waiver Denial Chairman Waxman Warns of Noncompliance with Subpoena Chairman Waxman Requests EPA Analyses of Global Warming Pollution from Transportation Chairman Waxman Releases Internal Administration Documents, Calls for Right Whale Protections Chairman Waxman Requests Testimony on Political Interference at EPA Chairman Waxman, Chairman Markey, and Rep. Inslee Release Principles for Global Warming Legislation Chairman Waxman Responds to Ranking Member Davis' Request Chairman Waxman Issues a Subpoena for White House Documents Chairman Waxman Urges Protection of Los Angeles River Basin Chairman Waxman Criticizes EPA Proposal That Would Allow Contaminated Drinking Water Chairman Waxman Issues Subpoena for EPA Documents Chairman Waxman Questions EPA's Losses in Federal Court Chairman Waxman Presses EPA for Answers on Proposal to Increase Air Pollution in National Parks Chairman Waxman Reiterates Request for OMB Documents Related to Ozone Regulation Chairman Waxman Statement on EPA's Final Rule on Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting GAO Report Finds EPA Library Closures Flawed Chairman Waxman Requests Explanation for EPA's Decision to Ignore Scientific Experts EPA Efforts to Regulate Carbon Dioxide Stymied Chairman Waxman Requests Improperly Withheld EPA Documents Chairman Waxman Responds to Kansas Legislators' Invitation Members Ask Rural Utility Service How it is Protecting Taxpayer Subsidized Loans from the Financial Risks of Climate Change New Leadership Appointed at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Chairman Waxman Issues a Subpoena for EPA Presentations Chairman Waxman Urges EPA to Protect Air Quality Near National Parks Chairman Waxman Requests GAO Examination of Regional Fishery Management Council Expenditures Chairman Waxman Requests Progress Update on Greenhouse Gas Regulations Chairman Waxman Requests Unredacted EPA Documents Chairman Waxman Urges Reversal of Decision Endangering Whales Committee Requests Action Plans for Uranium Contamination in the Navajo Nation Chairman Waxman Responds to EPA Letter Chairman Waxman's Statement on EPA Denial of California Waiver Request Waxman and Davis Joint Statement on Mitchell Report Committee Report: White House Engaged in Systematic Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science A Review of the Census Bureau's Risk Management Activities for IT Acquisitions State Department Inspector General Resigns What the October Wildfires Reveal About Preparedness In Southern California Chairman Waxman Urges Strong Response to Report on FDA Resource Shortfalls Chairman Waxman Requests Information Related to 700 MHz Spectrum Chairman Waxman Urges FDA Not to Open Loophole Chairman Kucinich Initiates Congressional Oversight Of The Perry Nuclear Power Plant Shutdown And NRC Response Assessing the State Department Inspector General Waxman to Introduce Moratorium on Approval of New Coal-Fired Power Plants EPA Approval of New Power Plants: Failure to Address Global Warming Pollutants Chairman Tierney Condemns Musharraf: Vital U.S. Interests at Stake over Suspension of the Pakistani Constitution and Crackdown on Lawyers and Activists Waxman Calls on CHPA Members to Remove Pediatric Cold Products from Market Cybersecurity: A Review of Public and Private Efforts to Secure our Nation's Internet Infrastructure Chairman Davis Introduces Labor-Management Partnership Act Hearing Examines Black Carbon and Global Warming House Passes Resolution on Iraq Corruption Chairman Asks FERC About Role in Combating Global Climate Change Members Question the Effectiveness of Youth Abstinence Programs Committee Requests EPA Study on Air Emissions of Microwave Popcorn Hearing: Assessing the State of Iraqi Corruption Hearing: Assessing the State of Iraqi Corruption Hearing: Assessing the State of Iraqi Corruption House Passes Inspector General Reforms White House Approved Lobbying Effort to Block Approval of California Vehicle Standards EPA Approves New Coal-Fired Power Plant Without CO2 Controls Questions Raised about the Conduct of the State Department Inspector General Committee Requests Information on Drug Testing Policies at TNA Entertainment Department of Justice Responds to Chairman Waxman Regarding Political Briefings House Passes Carbon-Neutral Government Legislation Rep. Waxman Introduces H.R. 3448, The Global Climate and Ozone Layer Protection Act of 2007 Chairman Waxman Requests Documents Regarding Controversial Clean Air Act Rulemaking H.R. 928, the Improving Government Accountability Act Federal Pay Policies and Administration Hearing on Allegations of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at the New U.S. Embassy in Iraq House Passes Customer Service Bill Reps. Waxman, Lantos, Payne, and Lee Ask for Fair Guidelines for AIDS Funding Recipients Politicization of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy "Ensuring a Merit-Based Employment System: An Examination of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Special Counsel Department of Energy Agrees to Rep. Waxman's Laboratory Cleanup Requests The Government's Response to the Nation's Emergency Room Crisis Committee Marks Up Carbon-Neutral Government Act Committee Marks Up Carbon-Neutral Government Act and Federal Customer Service Enhancement Act Rep. Waxman Introduces Bill to Make Federal Government Carbon-Neutral Hearing on FDA's Role in Evaluating Safety of Avandia Committee Requests Documents From Doan Investigation Staying Tough on Missile Defense Hearing Examines Achievements and Opportunities for Climate Protection Under the Montreal Protocol Fifteen Chairmen Urge the President to Stop Efforts to Weaken the G-8 Declaration Regarding Global Climate Change Carbon-Neutral Government Act of 2007 Fact Sheet: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Federal Crop Insurance Program Chairman Waxman Delivers a Speech on Federal Contracting Committee Reiterates Request for Documents Related to Plame-Wilson Disclosure Hearing Examines Federal Crop Insurance Program Oversight Committee Issues Three Subpoenas To Further Investigations Committee to Consider Subpoena of Andrew Card State Department's Response to Chairman Waxman's Letters Chairman Waxman Requests Information on White House Contract with MZM State Department's Response to Chairman Waxman's March 12 Letter Chairman Waxman Expands Investigation into EPA Reversal Rep. Waxman Requests Information on White House E-mail Policies Hearing Examines Safe and Affordable Generic Biotech Drugs Impact of the District of Columbia College Tuition Assistance Program on Higher Education in D.C. Waxman Questions White House Security Practices Views and Estimates Regarding the President's Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2008 Chairmen Waxman and Boxer Request Information on Contractor Conflicts of Interest Oversight Committee Requests Information on TSA Traveler Identity Verification Website Chairman Waxman Requests National Academy of Sciences Report Reform Acts Will Increase Transparency and Encourage Discovery of Waste Committee Holds Hearing on Political Influence on Government Climate Change Scientists Statement of Rep. Henry A. Waxman on the State of the Union Address Hearing Will Question Political Influence on Government Climate Change Scientists Oversight Committee Adopts Rules and Determines Subcommittee Jurisdictions Rep. Waxman Requests EPA Analysis Rep. Waxman Announces Democratic Membership of Oversight Committee Chairman Waxman Questions the President's New Iraq Contracting Strategy New Documents Reveal Unauthorized Halliburton Security Subcontracts in Iraq Democrats Oppose Plan to Privatize GSA Contract Auditing Waxman Asks Mehlman about Abramoff U2 Tickets, Releases Mehlman Financial Disclosure Form Restoring Honesty and Accountability in Washington Homeland Security Contracts Waste Hundreds of Millions of Taxpayer Dollars EPA Rulemaking Delay May Harm Public Health Federal Prosecutors Are Underfunded and Understaffed Committee Requests Bush Administration Climate Change Documents Committee Agrees to Waxman Request for Subpoena of Secretary Rumsfeld Safe Climate Act Will Significantly Reduce Global Warming Rep. Waxman Calls for Public Accounting of Rove's Actions in CIA Leak Case Congress Has Voted More Than 50 Times to Override State Laws New Report Reveals Estate Tax Repeal Would Give Over $200 Million Windfall to Oil Company Executives GAO Finds Improper Conversions of Political Appointees to Career Government Posts Democrats Ask GAO to Examine Whether Part D Plans Employ Management Techniques Katrina Contracts Rife with Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Halliburton's Performance Worsens under Second Iraqi Oil Contract Vice President Cheney's Political Travel, January 1 -- Election Day, 2002 Rep. Waxman Introduces Amendment to Discourage Contractor Fraud Reps. Waxman and Davis Request Comprehensive GAO Review RIO Contract Rep. Waxman and Sen. Kerry Again Question Administration's Emissions Claims Rep. Waxman Commends Groups For Suing To Stop Administration's Promotion of Unethical Human Pesticide Experiments Rep. Waxman and Sen. Kerry Question Administration's Emissions Claims Rep. Waxman, Sen. Boxer, and Rep. Solis Denounce Leaked Bush Administration Plan to Promote Human Pesticide Experiments Ample Precedent for Congressional Investigation into Disclosure of CIA Agent Details of FDA Decision on Plan B Revealed GAO: Continued Federal Efforts Needed to Improve Electronic Voting Rep. Waxman Requests GAO Review of National Abstinence Clearinghouse Contract Rep. Waxman and Leader Pelosi Introduce Anti-Cronyism Bill (H.R. 3925) Rep. Waxman and Democratic Leader Pelosi Introduce Legislation to Oversee Gulf Coast Contracting Rep. Waxman Decries Partisan Approach to Hurricane Katrina Oversight More on $1.5 Billion Fund for Oil and Gas Energy Bill (H.R. 6) Fails Americans in Four Fundamental Areas Experts: HHS Teen Health Website Inaccurate and Misleading Rep. Waxman Questions Treatment of Climate Scientists New EPA Proposal Encourages Human Pesticide Experiments Veterans Healthcare Waxman and Boxer Release Report on Human Pesticide Experiments GAO: Pentagon Squandering Billions on Excess Property Needle Exchange Programs Widely Endorsed by Scientific and Medical Organizations EPA Abandons Rule on Lead Poisoning from Home Renovations President's Social Security Statements Break Moral and Legal Commitment Withheld Data Shows "Dramatic Up-tick" in Terrorist Attacks DOD Audits: Halliburton Overcharges Top $212 Million U.S. Fish and Wildlife Scientists Decry Political Interference GAO Asked to Investigate Administration's Use of Covert Propaganda Congress' Abdication of Oversight Responsibility President's Calls for Energy Independence Inconsistent with Administration's Energy Plan HHS Restricts Communications between U.S. Scientists and WHO Officials Questions on Estimate of Mortality from Obesity HHS Experts: Funding Increase Urgently Needed for HIV/AIDS Drug Program Pharmaceutical Companies Fail to Register Clinical Trials on Government Website U.S. Taekwondo Union Bars Head Contact for Young Athletes Administration Urged To Drop Roadblocks to Low-Cost, Effective HIV Combination Therapies Taekwondo Rule Change Raises Safety Concerns for Young Athletes Administration Impeding Access to Life-Saving HIV Therapies in Africa, Other Developing Regions FDA Delays Consideration of Emergency Contraception Drug Waxman Calls for Congressional Investigation of Halliburton Kickbacks EPA Nominee Asked to Ensure Agency Would Meet Mercury Pollution Deadline Reports: Army Corps May Drop Plan to Issue Competitive Contract for Iraq Oil Work Halliburton Subsidiary Received $425 Million under Obscure LOGCAP Contract Contradictions in EPA Statements on Hydraulic Fracturing Justice Department Responds to GAO Brief Administration Asks Judge to Dismiss Lawsuit Doctored Transcript of Hubbell Tapes