WASHINGTON, April 6 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on April 5, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released the following statement on the proposed rule by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards (MATS) for power plants. The rule would cut emissions of mercury,  more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today filed an amicus brief in the pending case of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA  more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 4, 2023 on April 4, 2023: U.S. Senators Tom Carper, Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) today announced the award of $62,283,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for essential drinking water infrastructure upgrades in Delaware. This funding came from both of the historic drinking water investm  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, along with Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in introducing the Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for C  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: Last week, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) travelled to Kenya to meet with Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, former President Uhuru Kenyatta, and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to discuss the current political crisis and share his concerns that growing political tensions and violence threaten peace and progress in Kenya. U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman joined him in all conversations and em  more

WASHINGTON, April 5 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on April 4, 2023: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the EPW Committee, today toured Bioenergy Devco's Maryland Bioenergy Center in Jessup, Maryland. The facility uses a process known as anaerobic digestion to recycle up to 110,000 tons of organics annually, producing renewable natural gas fo  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), former Governor of Delaware, and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), introduced a resolution declaring this week, April 3-7, 2023, as National Assistant Principals Week to honor and recognize the pivotal role assistant principals play in helping students and teachers succeed in schools in Delaware and across the United States. "I often say any successful organization, gove  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Delaware, issued the following statement on April 7, 2023: * * * U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) released the following statement on the seventh anniversary of Ekpar Asat's detention by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): "Seven years ago, Ekpar Asat went missing in Xinjiang - detained by the CCP for his Uyghur identity. Ekpar is a son, brother, entrepreneur, and recipient of the State Department's International Visito  more