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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 Requests Information from Member of Now-Dissolved Trump Climate Working Group
Yesterday, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) sent a letter to Dr. Judith Curry, a former member of the now-disbanded Department of Energy (DOE) Climate Working Group (CWG), expressing concern over allegations raised by Dr. Curry in an interview with E&E News. The CWG recently released a report designed to back up the Trump Administration’s effort to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Endangerment Finding. In the interview with E&E, Dr. Curry reveals that DOE may have take… Continue Reading
September 17, 2025Ranking Member Lofgren Expresses Concern Over NASA’s Relationship with Department of Defense
Today, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) sent a letter to National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Acting Administrator Sean Duffy expressing her serious concern regarding NASA’s relationship with the Department of Defense (DoD). “NASA is empowered by Congress to exercise civilian leadership over America’s space program for the peaceful purposes of research and exploration,” Ranking Member Lofgren wrote in her letter. “The agency’s long and storied history in pursuit of these endeav… Continue Reading
September 16, 2025Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren Statement on House Passage of Bill to Extend SBIR and STTR Programs
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed under suspension of the rules H.R. 5100, which will extend the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs for one year. “I am a strong supporter of the SBIR and STTR programs and it is my priority to see these programs continue without disruption,” said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). “For more than 40 years, SBIR, and later its companion program STTR, have been contributing to U.S. lead… 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