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Letters to Science Agency Leaders Regarding President Trump's Reckless Executive Orders
Letter to NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan Letter to NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro Letter to NIST Acting Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology Craig Burkhardt Letter to DOE Acting Secretary Ingrid Kolb Letter to NOAA Acting Administrator Vice Admiral Nancy Hann… Continue Reading
September 21, 2024Letter from Ranking Members Pallone, Grijalva, and Lofgren Urging Colleagues to Vote No on S. 2228
Letter from Ranking Members Pallone, Grijalva, and Lofgren Urging Colleagues to Vote No on S. 2228… Continue Reading
September 16, 2024Letter to NIST Director Locascio Regarding Worker Health and Safety under the CHIPS for America Program
Letter to NIST Director Locascio Regarding Worker Health and Safety under the CHIPS for America Program… Continue Reading
Science Committee Democrats Organize and Announce Subcommittee Ranking Members
Today, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology met to organize and adopt Committee Rules. “With our Committee now organized, we’re ready to hit the ground running,” said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). “I want to extend my congratulations to each of our Subcommittee Ranking Members. As the lead Democrat on the Committee, I am laser-focused on sticking up for federal science. Since Inauguration Day, the Trump Administration has been working hard to crumble the foundation of the … Continue Reading
February 04, 2025Ranking Members Huffman, Lofgren Sound the Alarm on Musk’s Invasion at Key Science Agency
Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (CA-02) and Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) issued the following statement: “Elon Musk and his DOGE hackers are ransacking their way through the federal government, unlawfully gaining unfettered access to Americans’ private information and gutting programs people depend on. Now they have reached NOAA where they’re wreaking havoc on the scientific and regulatory systems that pro… Continue Reading
February 03, 2025Ranking Member Lofgren Seeks to Understand Damage to Science Agencies as Result of Trump’s Reckless Executive Orders
On Sunday, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren sent a series of letters to several agencies under the Science Committee’s jurisdiction demanding answers regarding each agency’s implementation of the President’s Executive Orders attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within the federal scientific enterprise. The letters were sent to the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National O… Continue Reading
Federal investments in science are needed to reduce wildfire
It used to be that October marked the end of wildfire season, and the most destructive fires occurred in or around forested areas. But increasingly, more Americans experience the impacts of wildfires year-round. In 2021, nearly 50,000 wildfires were reported, which burned over seven million acres of land. And as we saw with the Marshall fire in Boulder County, sometimes the most devastating fires can happen in suburban areas in the dead of winter. As members of Congress representin… Continue Reading
February 22, 2022A federal coal ash strategy: putting health and safety first
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would crack down to protect public health and the environment from coal ash contamination. EPA will ramp up enforcement of its rules to prohibit companies from dumping coal ash into unlined storage pits, and to require those companies to speed up their efforts to close down the existing pits that have been shown to leak. As the Chairwoman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, I want to see our federal age… Continue Reading
January 14, 2022Mapping a Strong Future for Ocean Science and Technology
Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) Statement for the Record on Amendment #30 to H.R. 4394, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
Thank you, Chairman Cole and Ranking Member McGovern, for considering testimony related to H.R. 4394, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. The amendment that I have submitted, along with my colleague from Virgina, Mr. Beyer, is fairly straightforward. It adds additional funds to the Office of Science account to increase support for Fusion Energy Science, and it correspondingly reduces funds for the Office of Nuclear Energy. Fusion energy development is at a… Continue Reading
December 14, 2022Chairwoman Johnson's Statement on the WHOSTP's Report on Sustained Arctic Observation
Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's (D-TX) statement on the White House Office of Science and Technology report, On the Need to Establish and Maintain a Sustained Arctic Obersving Network.I was pleased to receive the Office of Science and Technology Policy's report, On the Need to Establish and Maintain a Sustained Arctic Observing Network. This report is extremely timely as NOAA released their Arctic Report Card today, which details how shifting seasons and extreme weather in the rapidly wa… Continue Reading
April 25, 2022Chairwoman Johnson's Keynote Remarks at the American Meteorological Society Washington Forum
Keynote Remarks as Prepared Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology American Meteorological Society Washington Forum Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with members of the American Meteorological Society. Founded over 100 years ago, the AMS is the nation’s foremost professional society for atmospheric sciences. The work done by AMS and its members is vital to th… Continue Reading