CLEARR Drinking Water Act would authorize more than $1 billion to help small and disadvantaged communities improve the safety of drinking water   Washington (May 22, 2019) – Washington (May 22, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) was joined today by twelve Senators, including all Democrats on the Environment and... Read More

  Principles include measures to promote clean energy economy and mitigate dangers posed by climate change   Also introduces legislation to improve public water infrastructure for the 21st century   Washington (May 22, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-author of the Green New Deal resolution, today outlined a... Read More

Washington (May 21, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chair of the Senate Climate Change Task Force, hosted this week’s meeting with CEOs leading the charge on climate change action. Leaders from Ceres, DSM North America, North America of Group Rossignol, and the Colorado Ski Country USA discussed the tremendous power... Read More

  Cape Cod, Massachusetts is only accessible by two bridges spanning the federal Cape Cod Canal   Washington (May 20, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Representatives William Keating (MA-09), and John Garamendi (CA-03) today reintroduced the Enhancing the Strength and Capacity of... Read More

  [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) wrote American Airlines Chairman and CEO W. Douglas Parker to urge the company to provide living wages to the 5,000 ground service agents employed by Envoy Air, a wholly-owned... Read More

  WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) wrote to President Trump raising serious concerns about his Administration’s growing confrontation with Iran and asking a serious of questions about how he plans to deal with the Iranian... Read More

  Amendments will support Mass. Maritime Academy, offshore wind supply chain, ocean research, and environmental protections   Washington (May 15, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) secured four amendments in the Maritime Administration Authorization and Enhancement Act that passed today in the Senate Commerce, Science and... Read More

Washington, D.C. Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., joined Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and 11 other Senate co-sponsors today to introduce an expanded version of Sen. Wyden's bill to protect American elections from foreign interference by mandating hand-marked paper ballots and setting new cybersecurity standards for all federal elections. The... Read More

  MARITIME Act would establish grants for research harbor infrastructure, designate Maritime Academies as Centers of Excellence   Washington, D.C. (May 14, 2019) –Senators Edward J. Markey, (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today introduced the Maritime Academy Reinvestment and Training... Read More

  More than 47,000 Americans died of an opioid overdose in 2017, 17,000 involved prescription opioid painkillers   Washington (May 14, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03) today introduced the Safe Prescribing of Controlled Substances Act, legislation that requires any prescriber of opioid... Read More

  More than 47,000 Americans died of an opioid overdose in 2017, 17,000 involved prescription opioid painkillers   Washington (May 14, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) today introduced two pieces of bipartisan legislation to help combat the opioid epidemic. The first bill, the Lessening... Read More

  Bipartisan FISH SAFE Act restores and extends federal funding for fishing safety programs for 2018-2021   Washington (May 10, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Angus King (I-Maine), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and... Read More

  Potential children’s privacy violations alleged after experts review Amazon’s Smart Speaker for Children   Washington (May 9, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, along with Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Josh... Read More

  Role of top-secret unit remained classified for more than four decades   Washington (May 9, 2019) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today reintroduced bipartisan legislation to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the 23rd Special Headquarters Troops and the 3133rd Signal Service Company, U.S. Army... Read More

  Washington (May 8, 2019) – For 2019, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has approved the manufacture of the equivalent of almost eight billion 10-milligram pills of OxyContin. But despite federal approval of such a massive quantity of addictive opioid pain medication, there is little public information about which... Read More

  Washington (May 8, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, assessed the Trump administration’s short-sighted approach to Iran one year after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the... Read More

  Despite the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change, Craft has said publicly she believes “both sides” of climate science   Washington (May 3, 2019) – With the Trump administration formally nominating Ambassador to Canada Kelly Knight Craft to be the new United Nations ambassador, Senators Edward J. Markey... Read More

  Department of Interior’s capitulation to oil industry pressure threatens worker safety and the environment   Washington (May 2, 2019) – Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the leading Congressional investigator of the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion, released the following statement after the Trump administration today... Read More

  WASHINGTON – Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined today by Senators Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) in introducing a Senate resolution reaffirming the importance of a close partnership between the... Read More

  As Trump fuels global arms race, Markey legislation would counter Trump admin. assaults on remaining global arms control architecture   New legislation prohibits obligating or expending funds to increase numbers of U.S. nuclear warheads and delivery systems above New START limits   Washington (May 2, 2019) – In an effort to... Read More