Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

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• Gillibrand: Grant to pay to demolish abandoned New Cassel school

  communities clean up and redevelop contaminated properties, said Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee .The former school was abandoned more than 20 years and is contaminated with inorganic materials and metals,   Read more »

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• Waterways infrastructure bill passed by Senate

  500,000 jobs. Could you comment on that? “Yes, (California) Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, works collaboratively with (Louisiana) Sen. David Vitter, ranking member. In all her statements, she said 10:50 AM from Delta Farm Press Read more »

• President to nominate acting chief Dan Tangherlini to lead GSA

  episode of wasteful spending. Dan Tangherlini, center, arrives at a hearing to testify before Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in April 2012. (Alex Wong/Getty). Officials in the Public Buildings Service, which oversees federal real estate, had   from The Washington Post Read more »

• Climate Warnings, Growing Louder

  strategy, like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, have long since slunk away. Meanwhile, Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee have spent the last two weeks trying to derail Mr. Obama’s nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency   from The New York Times Read more »

• Republicans see IRS scandal parallel in EPA info requests

  confirmation process. McCarthy has had requests to answer more than 1,000 questions by Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which Democrats have termed a record number. Her nomination was sent to the full Senate on Thursday after   from Pittsburgh Entertainment Read more »

• 1ST IRS HEARING KICKS OFF – GOP leaders urge restraint over scandals – FBI PROBES MENENDEZ SMEAR - House immigration gang strikes deal - MARKEY'S WAR ON THE FAX MACHINE - Moniz confirmed

  out to smear him while he was running for reelection last year and then ascending to his new post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to four people briefed on the inquiry…. --“As part of a wider public corruption investigation   from The Politico Read more »