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Bipartisan Letter to Optica Foundation CEO Elizabeth Rogan Seeking Answers Regarding Optica's Use of Undisclosed Funds from Huawei to Back U.S. Research
Bipartisan Letter to Optica Foundation CEO Elizabeth Rogan Seeking Answers Regarding Optica's Use of Undisclosed Funds from Huawei to Back U.S. Research… Continue Reading
March 21, 2024Letters to FCC in Support of FCC Rule to Protect Spectrum Interference
Bipartisan Letters to FCC in Support of FCC Rule to Protect Spectrum Interference: Letter to FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Letter to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Letter to FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Letter to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington Letter to FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks… Continue Reading
January 29, 2024Bipartisan Letter to OSTP Director Prabhakar Urging Action to Address Sexual Harassment in Federal Science Landscape
Bipartisan Letter to OSTP Director Prabhakar Urging Action to Address Sexual Harassment in Federal Science Landscape… Continue Reading
Ranking Member Lofgren's Statement on MAGA Republicans’ Irresponsible Appropriations Bills
— Yesterday, the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill passed the House of Representatives. The bill includes a massive $1.8 billion cut to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compared to the FY 2024 enacted level, and is $3.6 billion below the FY 2025 budget request. House Republicans also attempted to pass their Energy and Water appropriations bill this week, which includes funds for the Department of Energy (DOE). The bill significantly slashes funding for the … Continue Reading
July 18, 2024Ranking Member Lofgren Celebrates Initial 30M for California ARCHES Hydrogen Hub
(SAN JOSE, CA) - Yesterday, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) announced an initial 30M award for the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES). The ARCHES Hydrogen Hub in California is one of seven hydrogen hubs established by the Biden Administration’s Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs Program and made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The purpose of this program is to form a clean hydrogen network that will decarbonize var… Continue Reading
July 09, 2024Science Committee Leaders Release Bipartisan Legislation to Reauthorize NASA
— Today, House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), along with Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chairman Brian Babin (R-TX) and Ranking Member Eric Sorensen (D-IL), released legislation to reauthorize NASA. The bill reaffirms our nation’s unwavering commitment to leading global space and science endeavors and ensures NASA maintains its position as the world’s premier space agency. Highlights of the NASA Reauthorization Act… 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