Energy and Environment

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) hailed today’s introduction of the Green New Deal, a roadmap to making the nation carbon neutral within the next 10 years while creating green energy jobs. Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) has invited Joel Clement, a Maine-native and former Department of Interior official who has spoken out against the Trump administration’s attempts to suppress climate science, as her guest to this year’s State of the Union. “I’m privileged to have climate change scientist and Mainer Joel Clement as my guest to this year’s State of the Union. The new Congres... Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) was named Vice Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies by Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY). “I’m honored to be named Vice Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior & Environment and to serve alongside Chairwoman McCollum,” Congresswoman Pingree said. “During this crucial time for the... Read more »

Today Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) wrote to the CEOs of Google, Microsoft and Facebook to question their companies’ high-profile sponsorship of a conference promoting climate change denial. At the recent LibertyCon conference, the three companies were listed among sponsors that also included the CO2 Coalition, Heartland Institute, and Heritage Foundati... Read more »

This week, the House passed four funding bills backed by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME)—Financial Services, Agriculture, Transportation, and Interior—to reopen critical agencies in federal government. “We don’t need gimmicks. We need to reopen the government,” Pingree said on the House floor this morning in support of Interior Appropriations legislation. “Despite the President’s refusal to ... Read more »

On the heels of a federal report finding that climate change has had an outsize impact on New England, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced her support for The Green New Deal, a legislative blueprint proposed by Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition the nation to renewable energy sources within ten years. Pin... Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s proposal to undo President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. “From the wildfires raging across the West to tick-borne Lyme disease spreading across Maine, it’s clear that we ignore climate change at our own peril. Yet that is exactly what the Trump Administration is doing here by rolling back some of the be... Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree announced today that organizations in Maine would receive $164,000 in federal grants to study and respond to marine mammal strandings. The funding for Marine Mammals of Maine, College of the Atlantic, and University of Maine comes amid a wave of unexplained seal deaths and strandings over the past few weeks. “With so many seals ending up on Maine beaches this summer, ... Read more »

After inadvertently released documents showed the Department of the Interior purposely redacted information in its review of National Monuments, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and other members of the House Appropriations Committee are demanding answers from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. “These deletions seem to show that the Administration was merely looking for a way to justify its ideolo... Read more »

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) spoke on the House floor in opposition to anti-carbon solutions resolution H.Con.R. 199 and chided her Republican colleagues for refusing to help mitigate the threat that climate change poses to our health, ecosystem, and economy, especially in coastal states like Maine. Transcript of Pingree’s floor speech is as follows: I rise today in opposition to the rule ... Read more »