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Ranking Member Pingree: GOP Bill Endangers Americans’ Health While Helping Polluters Profit
July 9, 2024
During today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of the 2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill, Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) highlighted how the bill takes an aggressive anti-environment pro-pollution stance with crippling cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that will endanger public health, strain the economy, and increase costs. The bill also slashes funding for National Parks and arts programs.
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Members of Congress to Launch First-Ever Slow Fashion Caucus to Curb Fast Fashion Pollution
June 27, 2024
On Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 10 a.m., Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), ranking member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, and Members of Congress will announce the first-ever Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus to curb fast fashion pollution through climate-smart policies. The Members will be joined by sustainable fashion industry leaders and stakeholders, Patagonia, and ThredUp for the launch event and press conference on Capitol Hill.
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Members of Congress Launch First-Ever Slow Fashion Caucus to Curb Fast Fashion Pollution
June 27, 2024
On Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 10 a.m., Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), ranking member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, and Members of Congress will announce the first-ever Congressional Slow Fashion Caucus to curb fast fashion pollution through climate-smart policies. The Members will be joined by sustainable fashion industry leaders and stakeholders, Patagonia, and ThredUp for the launch event and press conference on Capitol Hill.
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Pingree Highlights Need for Climate Programs to Protect Military Installations like PNSY
June 13, 2024
In the House Appropriations Committee markup of the Fiscal Year 2025 Defense funding bill, senior Appropriator and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) spoke out against harmful riders in Republicans funding bill. Speaking in support of Congresswoman Betty McCollum’s (D-Minn.) amendment to reinstate climate preparedness funding in the bill, Pingree called attention to rising sea levels in Maine and its impact on ...
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Pingree Presses EPA on Efforts to Address PFAS Contamination
April 30, 2024
During a House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee budget hearing with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) called attention to Maine’s ongoing challenges with “forever chemical” contamination.
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