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Letter to DOE Secretary Wright and OMB Director Vought from California Democrats Over Budget Cuts
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July 17, 2025Letter to NASA Interim Administrator Duffy on Illegally Impounded FY25 Funds
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July 09, 2025Letter to GSA about HUD Takeover of NSF Headquarters
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Ranking Member Lofgren Blasts Administration for Plan to Revoke GHG Endangerment Finding
Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it intends to rescind EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding. The finding was finalized in 2009 and concluded that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations. This is a major blow to science-based efforts to address the consequences of climate change. “This is delusional and unscientific," said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). "EPA’s longstanding endangerment finding tha… Continue Reading
July 25, 2025NEWS: Schiff, Padilla, Lofgren Demand Reversal of Layoffs, Budget Cuts at National Laboratories
California lawmakers highlight potential harms to AI development and other cutting-edge research as proposed $2.75 billion budget cut and seizure of existing funds trigger layoffs at labs across U.S. Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla (both D-Calif.) and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-18), Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, urged the Trump administration to reverse the budget cuts that are triggering layoffs across the Depart… Continue Reading
July 25, 2025Ranking Member Lofgren Questions Purge of High-Ranking Civil Servants at NOAA
This week, it was reported that two high-ranking career individuals were placed on administrative leave at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). These personnel actions come ahead of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s scheduled vote on Neil Jacob’s confirmation as NOAA Administrator next week. The civil servants placed on leave include Dr. Stephen Volz, Assistant Administrator for NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Servi… 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