Edward Markey News

Max Baucus , D-Mont., a key coal-state senator -- will look at how jobs could be affected.

As the Internet turns 40 years old, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act and the Internet Freedom Act of 2009 poise themselves to go through the legislative process.

Reston, Va.-SNM applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its passage of H.R. 3276-the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2009.

Governor Deval Patrick swept through Washington yesterday, wrapping up a two-day tour to advance the state's interests in health care, economic development, and transportation - a trip that also let him showcase his access to the city's most powerful Democrats, including President Obama.

Rep. Edward J. Markey, co-author of the climate change bill that passed the House this summer, predicted Wednesday that the legislation would spur a technological revolution similar to the one that brought affordable satellite dishes and digital cell phones to the marketplace a decade ago.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus as well as top U.S. politicians and scientists will debate climate change Wednesday in a daylong conference organized by The Washington Times.

A House subcommittee endorsed Tuesday a bill to ban importing foreign, low-level radioactive waste - which would block an EnergySolutions proposal to import 20,000 tons of it from Italy, process it in Tennessee and dump it in Utah's western desert.

THE BLUR of details and fog of ideological attacks can obscure the truly essential in the current congressional debate about legislation to confront global warming while building a green economy: the stark need for immediate action.

Mozilla on Friday issued its support for the Federal Communications Commission 's proposed net neutrality rules, but a House Republican this week introduced a bill that would block the commission's efforts.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Taubman building, 5th floor, Cambridge, MA Click here to register! Featuring: Keynote address by Congressman Edward Markey , co-author of the American Clean Energy and Security Act Comments by George Bachrach , president of the Environmental ...

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski wants to implement net neutrality rules on the wired a ' and wireless a ' internet.

The Senate bill aimed at reducing global warming pollution will initially grant billions of dollars of free emissions permits to utilities and industry but will require the bulk of the money be returned to consumers and taxpayers, according to newly released details.

President Obama blasted critics of his administration's environmental policies and praised Massachusetts officials for advancing technologies that will yield big benefits for the environment in a speech yesterday in Cambridge.

President Obama will return Tuesday to Virginia, the state he carried for Democrats for the first time since 1964, in hopes of boosting Democrat Creigh Deeds in a race for governor with Republican Bob McDonnell.

After cap-and-trade energy legislation cleared the first test in the House of Representatives this summer, it stalled in the world's most deliberative body.

As Congress considers curbs on carbon dioxide pollution, a U.S. report on Thursday urged the White House to prepare now for flooding and other natural disasters brought by global warming .

Kudos to Congressman Ed Markey for bird-dogging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the need to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants.

From left, House Democrats Rep. Henry A. Waxman of California, Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan, Rep.

A little noticed Environmental Protection Agency analysis shows that the pending climate-change bill in Congress would particularly benefit the states represented by its primary authors.

Powerful Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., commends many Italian imports: Ferrari cars, Armani suits and delicious prosciutto ham.