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Drilling method's exemption challenged by bill
June 5, 2009
By: Michael Riley
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette plans to introduce a bill next week that will regulate a widespread drilling technology that uses benzene and other toxic chemicals but also has been a main driver of the West's natural-gas boom.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY), Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, joined U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today in expressing sadness over the murder of Dr. George Tiller, Medical Director of Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas.
Four years after Vice President Dick Cheney spearheaded a massiveenergy bill that exempted natural gas drilling from federal clean waterlaws, Congress is having second thoughts about the environmentaldangers posed by the burgeoning industry.
With growing evidence that the drilling can damage water supplies,Democratic leaders in Congress are circulating legislation that wouldrepeal the extraordinary exemption and for the first time requirecompanies to disclose all chemicals used in the key drilling process,called hydraulic fracturing.
WASHINGTON, DC — Today Chair Emeritus John D. Dingell, Chairs Henry A. Waxman, Frank Pallone, and Bart Stupak, and Reps. Diana DeGette and Betty Sutton released a discussion draft of the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Michael Castle (R-DE), chief architects of bipartisan legislation overturning former President George W. Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, today led a group of 139 bipartisan Members of Congress in submitting comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the draft guidelines for human stem cell research.
U.S. Reps. DeGette and Castle, along with 137 other Members of Congress, wrote:
DeGette speaks out after Afghanistan fact-finding trip on women's rights
May 25, 2009
By: Wendy Norris
Energy and Commerce 'emissaries' a key to House floor success for climate plan
May 22, 2009
By: Darren Samuelsohn
Thirty-five members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee gained a new title last night: global warming ambassadors.
Will mail to Congress influence the outcome of Waxman-Markey?
May 21, 2009
By: Christa Marshall
While polls continue to show that most people's interest in the climatechange issue is fairly tepid, Rep. Charlie Melancon is getting somereally hot mail from his constituents.