Energy and Environment

Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright introduced the Safeguarding America’s Future and Environment (SAFE) Act, legislation that would safeguard the country’s natural resources from the increasingly harmful effects of climate change.  U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and then-Senator from Montana Max Baucus introduced the legislation in the…

Last night, Congressman Matt Cartwright’s Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2014 (H.R. 4092) unanimously passed the U.S. House of Representatives.  The legislation, introduced by Cartwright in March, would establish a clearinghouse through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.  The clearinghouse will publish information on federal programs…

This week, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright’s Job Creation through Energy Efficient Manufacturing Act, introduced on March 7th of this year, was added to Minority Whip Steny Hoyer’s (MD-5) “Make it in America” legislative program.  Cartwright joined his colleagues, including Whip Hoyer and Democratic Caucus Vice-Chair Joe Crowley (NY-14), on Wednesday to…

Today, Congressman Matt Cartwright, a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources and the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a new rule to cut carbon-dioxide emissions from the nation's power plants by as much as 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030: “Climate change is…

Congressman Matt Cartwright issued the following statement today after Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett issued an executive order that would allow natural gas drilling under state parks and forests: “As the governor moves ahead and allows fracking under state parks and forests, we should require transparency with respect to the chemicals being put in the ground, making sure we…

Today, legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright passed its first test.  H.R. 4092, the Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act of 2014, was introduced by Cartwright on February 26 this year, gained 39 co-sponsors, and was referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.  This morning, that Committee passed the bill unanimously. “This…

U.S. Congressman Matt Cartwright will hold his first Schuylkill County “Coffee with your Congressman” in Pottsville on Monday, April 28, 2014.  The event is a casual, come-and-go opportunity for constituents to visit directly with the Congressman.  This is a part of an ongoing series of events Congressman Cartwright will hold across the Seventeenth District…

Today, U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter – cosigned by 7 House colleagues – to President Barack Obama urging him to continue to act to protect tributary streams and wetlands in the Chesapeake watershed and across the nation by expediting the finalization of the EPA’s recent “waters of the US”…

Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright, member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, issued the following statement on the Environment Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ issuance of a new clean water rule.  Over the past decade, Supreme Court rulings and interpretations of the law have thrown into doubt which waterways are protected under the Clean…

Today, U.S. Congressmen Matt Cartwright (D-PA-17) and Peter Welch (D-VT-At Large) introduced H.R. 4092, the bipartisan Streamlining Energy Efficiency for Schools Act.  First introduced in the Senate by Mark Udall (D-CO) and Susan Collins (R-ME), this common-sense, no-cost legislation would promote environmental and cost-saving initiatives in our nation’s schools.   The…