Environment
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Leonard Lance’s Pro-Environment Record
CLIMATE CHANGE: As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, Leonard Lance is a cosponsor of a congressional resolution calling for innovative solutions to protect the nation's economic and national security from the growing challenges of climate change.
OPPOSES OFF-SHORE DRILLING: Leonard Lance has long-opposed oil and gas drilling and exploration in the Mid-Atlantic region. Lance has consistently been part of the New Jersey congressional delegation’s long-standing and bipartisan opposition to efforts by Republican and Democratic presidents to issue new drilling leases in these waters.
CLEANING UP SUPERFUND SITES: Leonard Lance voted for the fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill that included an additional $66 million to accelerate the cleanup of New Jersey Superfund sites, including 13 sites in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District.
CLEANING UP BROWNFIELDS: As a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Leonard Lance helped championed bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the successful Brownfields Program through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that is tasked with remediation and redevelopment of 419 contaminated sites in New Jersey – including contaminated sites in Dover, East Amwell, Phillipsburg, Roxbury and Somerville.
INCREASING LAND & WATER CONSERVATION FUND: Leonard Lance is a cosponsor of legislation to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) permanently. Lance also voted for the fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill that included $425 million for the LWCF – a $25 million increase over the previous year’s funding.
PROTECTING THE DELAWARE RIVER BASIN: Leonard Lance voted for the fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill that included $5 million he helped secure to implement the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act.
“NO” TO DRILLING IN ARCTIC REFUGE: Leonard Lance was one of 12 Republicans to sign a letter to congressional leaders objecting to a provision in the tax bill that would allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
PROTECTING EPA FROM BUDGET CUTS: Leonard Lance voted against an amendment that would have cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) budget by approximately $1.9 billion. PENN EAST PIPELINE OPPONENT: Leonard Lance is one of the leading congressional opponents of the Penn East pipeline project. |
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Washington, D.C. --- Congressman Leonard Lance today issued the following statement on the release of the U.S. State Department’s final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Keystone XL pipeline:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Leonard Lance (NJ-07) tonight released the following statement after the President delivered the State of the Union Address:
House-passed legislation would improve natural gas delivery system and lower energy bills for New Jersey households and businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Leonard Lance (NJ 07) today backed a House measure to expedite natural gas pipeline approvals and potentially expand the East Coast’s constrained gas delivery system at a time when New Jersey consumers and businesses are increasingly relying upon natural gas for both heating and electricity.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressman Leonard Lance (NJ-07) today voted in favor of H.R. 4480, the “Domestic Energy and Jobs Act” -- a common-sense package of energy production bills aimed to help create jobs, reduce energy costs that hard-working families and small businesses currently face and also spur badly-needed economic growth and job creation. The full House approved the package 248-163.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- House Energy and Commerce Committee member Congressman Leonard Lance (NJ-07) yesterday evening voted in favor of two measures to help address still-too-high gasoline prices.
Specifically, Congressman Leonard Lance voted in favor of two House Energy and Commerce Committee-approved bills: