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Letter to NASA Acting Administrator Duffy Demanding the Agency Stop Plans to Close and Move Labs at Goddard Space Flight Center
Letter to NASA Acting Administrator Duffy Demanding the Agency Stop Plans to Close and Move Labs at Goddard Space Flight Center NASA's 11/14/25 Response to Ranking Member Lofgren's 11/10/25 Letter Regarding Goddard Lab Closures and Moves… Continue Reading
September 19, 2025Letter to Dr. Curry from the Disbanded DOE Climate Working Group Regarding Allegations Raised in Recent Reporting
Letter to Dr. Curry from the Disbanded DOE Climate Working Group Regarding Allegations Raised in Recent Reporting… Continue Reading
September 17, 2025Letter to NASA Administrator Duffy Regarding NASA Relationship with DOD
Letter to NASA Administrator Duffy Regarding NASA Relationship with DOD… Continue Reading
Ranking Member Lofgren Demands NASA Halt Closures at Goddard Space Flight Center
Today, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) sent a letter to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Acting Administrator Sean Duffy demanding that NASA immediately halt plans to close and move laboratories and mission-critical facilities at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Ranking Member states NASA must respond within 24 hours and emphasizes the threat these chaotic and veiled moves and closures, partially carried out during a government shutdown, pose … Continue Reading
October 21, 2025Ranking Member Lofgren Commends University Leaders Rejection of Trump Attempt to Control and Intimidate Academia through Compact Agreement
As of today, the majority of the universities that were initially offered a “compact” by President Trump formally rejected the offer of preferential treatment and funding in exchange for agreeing to terms laid out by the administration. “I am glad to see universities stand together and reject this ridiculous compact offer by the Trump administration,” said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren. “Anything short of a wholesale rejection of this bribe would be a capitulation to the Trump administration’s ter… Continue Reading
October 17, 2025Ranking Members Lofgren and Stevens Demand NSF Reverse Cruel Changes to the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Today, Ranking Members Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Research and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Haley Stevens (D-MI) sent a letter to National Science Foundation (NSF) Acting Director Brian Stone demanding reconsideration of recent policy changes to the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). The Trump administration's changes to GRFP include excluding second-year Ph.D. students as eligible participants for the program while also halving the application window for the current year’s … 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