WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced a $31 million investment from the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) to lower costs and increase energy efficiency for Maine’s hardworking families. The Infrastructure Law Pingree helped pass expanded WAP so more working families can have their homes retrofitted. WAP home retrofitting includes installing… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC— With gas prices skyrocketing in recent weeks, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced she has cosponsored legislation to curb profiteering by big oil companies and provide American consumers relief at the pump. The Stop Gas Price Gouging Tax and Rebate Act, introduced in the U.S. House by Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), would create a windfall profit tax on… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today highlighted $990,000 in federal funding she secured for the University of Maine’s Climate Science Information Exchange in the Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations Bill passed by Congress and signed by President Biden. One of ten community projects funded through Pingree’s appropriations requests, the Maine Climate… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), and Assistant Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Katherine Clark (D-MA-5) today led a group of 90 Members of Congress in calling on Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to take additional steps to reduce the impact of energy… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC— Chair of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) tonight welcomed House passage of the FY2022 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, which increases funding $1.9 billion above Fiscal Year 2021. This $38 billion bill makes significant investments to… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Tonight, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and the U.S. House of Representatives took action to hold President Putin and Russia accountable for their unprovoked war against Ukraine. The Suspending Energy Imports from Russia Act, which garnered strong support from both sides of the aisle, will further isolate Russia from the global economy by… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the bipartisan Ban Russian Energy Imports Act was formally introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and cosponsored by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and 45 Representatives. The bill will ban the United States from importing Russian crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products,… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—On Monday, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) denounced the U.S. Supreme Court case West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a Republican-led case challenging the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases and address the climate crisis. The baseless hearing comes on the same day the United Nations… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), and Chris Pappas (D-N.H.) are urging the Biden Administration to fund critical baseline research and scientific studies to advance sustainable offshore wind opportunities in the Gulf of Maine. In a letter to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Amanda… Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Senator Angus King (I-Maine) and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced a $3,600,000 U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant for the Casco Bay Island Transit District (CBITD) to replace an outdated, aging ferry in their fleet with a new, hybrid vessel. The funding, awarded through FTA’s competitive Passenger Ferry Grant… Read more »
