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Ranking Member Pingree Statement on Trump Admin. Plan to Eliminate EPA’s Environmental Justice Office

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After it was reported that the Trump Administration plans to eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, released the following statement: The EPA’s decision to eliminate all environmental…

VIDEO: Pingree Says Republicans’ Full Year Continuing Resolution is Not a Responsible Way to Govern

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Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, called on her colleagues to oppose Republicans’ stopgap funding bill. In remarks on the House Floor, Pingree argued that full-year continuing resolutions are not a responsible way to govern, and that Republicans should do their job and come back to the…

Pingree, King Demand Answers on Trump Admin.’s Termination of Maine Sea Grant Funding

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In response to the Trump Administration’s decision to cancel a four-year, $4.5 million funding agreement for the Maine Sea Grant program, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and Senator Angus King today sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, demanding that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) immediately reverse this…

Pingree: Abrupt Termination of Maine Sea Grant Makes Clear President Trump Has Personal Vendetta Against Maine

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) released the following statement in response to reports that the Trump Administration has terminated the University of Maine’s $4.5 million grant program for Maine Sea Grant: The abrupt termination of Maine Sea Grant funding is a devastating loss for our coastal communities and marine industries, including our fisheries. This program has…

Ranking Member Pingree: Reckless, Indiscriminate Purge of Public Servants Will Have Lasting Harmful Effects

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In letters sent today to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which oversees the United States Forest Service, and Department of the Interior (DOI), which encompasses eleven bureaus, including the National Park Service, House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree…

Ranking Member Pingree Sounds Alarm Over Indiscriminate Firing of 3,400 Forest Service Employees

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, says the Trump Administration’s reported firing of 3,400 U.S. Forest Service (FS) employees will severely hinder the agency’s ability to fight wildfires.  In a letter to newly confirmed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Pingree underscores that…

Ranking Member Pingree: Imminent Purge of EPA Employees Will Undermine Agency’s Obligations to Protect Human Health and the Environment

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, is calling on the newly-confirmed Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin to reject any effort to purge his agency’s workforce. Pingree’s letter follows reporting from The New York Times that the EPA…

Pingree Helps Secure Federal Support to Advance Fox Islands’ Green Energy Goals; Announces $5.2 Million for Rural Clean Energy Projects in Maine’s 1st District

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced millions of dollars in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for clean energy initiatives across Maine, including $8.7 million to help Maine’s Fox Islands advance their ambitious clean energy goals and more than $5.2 million in Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) funding to support local…

Pingree, DeLauro, Carper Announce First-Ever Federal Report on Fast Fashion Pollution

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Today, U.S. Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released findings from the federal government’s first-ever report on textile waste in the United States. The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report, requested by Pingree and…

Pingree Announces $13.2 Million to Support Private Forestland Management, Conservation in Maine

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More than $13 million is coming to Maine to support private forestland management and conservation, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree announced today. The grants for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) and the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) are among awards totaling nearly $335 million for state agencies and nonprofit organizations across…

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