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Reaction Of Sen. Patrick Leahy To The Court Of Appeals Decision Striking Down The Bush EPA Rule On Mercury Emissions February 8, 2008 

Senators Urge EPA To Approve Northeast Mercury Plan And Enhance National Mercury Pollution Standards November 6, 2007

Congress Overrides President’s Veto Of Water Resources Bill November 8, 2007

Leahy, Snowe Urge EPA To Approve Northeast Mercury Plan And Enhance National Mercury Pollution Standards October 25, 2007

Vermont And New Hampshire Senators Introduce Bill To Advance Conservation Along The Upper Connecticut River June 11, 2007

Congressional Delegation Lauds Vermont's Energy Efficiency Programs Earning State Top Ranking In National Report June 5, 2007


Energy Issues

Utility Deregulation, Nuclear Waste and Renewable Energy

Delegation Announces $3.9 Million For Vermont Home Heating Assistance January 16, 2008

Vermont Delegation Announces Heating Assistance; Record High Heating Prices Predicted This Winter September 26, 2007

Letter From The Vermont Delegation To Entergy About Operational Concerns At Vermont Yankee September 21, 2007

Congressional Delegation Requests Thorough Investigation Into Vermont Yankee Cooling Tower Collapse August 2, 2007

Congressional Delegation Lauds Vermont's Energy Efficiency Programs Earning State Top Ranking In National Report June 5, 2007

Reaction - Of Senator Patrick Leahy To The Senate’s Vote To Shelve The Energy Bill - 11/21/03

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy Conference Report On H.R.6, The Energy Policy Act Of 2003 - 11/20/03

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - 3/19/03

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy On His Decision To Vote In Favor On The National Nuclear Waste Depository At Yucca Mountain - 7/9/02


Mercury Pollution

Reaction Of Sen. Patrick Leahy To The Court Of Appeals Decision Striking Down The Bush EPA Rule On Mercury Emissions February 8, 2008 

Senators Urge EPA To Approve Northeast Mercury Plan And Enhance National Mercury Pollution Standards November 6, 2007

Leahy, Snowe Urge EPA To Approve Northeast Mercury Plan And Enhance National Mercury Pollution Standards October 25, 2007

News Release -  Members of Congress Want Truth on Tuna and Mercury Rule Analysis  09/01/04

News Release - Vermont's U.S. Senators Decry Bush Administration's Flawed Mercury Proposal  07/09/04

News Release - Senators Hail EPA Inspector General's Decision To Review  Administration's Mercury Rule 05/13/04

Reaction - Of Sen. Patrick Leahy To EPA Administrator Leavitt’s Announcement Thursday That He Will Extend The Deadline For Finalizing The Mercury Rule To March 15, 2005 04/29/04

News Release - Mercury Rule Comment Period Ends With Flood Of Public Objections; Leahy And Jeffords Call On Bush Administration To Listen, And To Reject EPA’s Industry-Written Mercury Rule 04/29/04

Reaction - Of Senator Patrick Leahy To The Pending Motion In Federal Court To Force The EPA To Rewrite Lax Mercury Emissions Standards 04/28/04

News Release - Senators Ask EPA Inspector General To Investigate Mercury Rule - 04/12/04

News Release and Letter - Tripartisan Senate Coalition Calls On EPA To Draft Stronger Mercury Proposal - 04/01/04

News Release and Statement - Leahy Questions EPA’s Leavitt On Mercury Rule; ‘To be blunt, the Bush Administration has a credibility problem about its approach to the Clean Air Act and to mercury pollution’ - 3/25/04

Reaction - Of Sen. Patrick Leahy To The Administration’s New Health Advisory On Mercury In Seafood - 03/19/04

News Release - Former EPA Officials Under Bush Tell Leahy And Jeffords That White House Is Going Easy On Big Polluters - 2/6/04

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy DPC Oversight Hearing On Bush Administration Enforcement Of The Clean Air Act - 2/6/04

News Release - New England Senators Call For Reversal Of Mercury Rule - 01/30/04

Reaction - Of Senator Patrick Leahy To The Administration’s Retreat From Mercury Reductions - 12/03/03

Press Release - Leahy, Snowe, Others Urge EPA Not To Weaken Mercury Standards - 6/7/02

Mercury Pollution: Unfinished Business (Earth Day 1998 Message) - 4/22/98

 

Natural Resources

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy On the Healthy Forest Act - 11/21/03

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy Leahy On The Leahy Amendment To The “Healthy Forests Act” (Amendment Drawn From Leahy’s “Forest and Community Protection Act”) Senate Floor - 10/30/03

Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy The Forestry And Community Assistance Act - 9/9/03

News Release - Leahy, Firefighters And Former Bush Administration Official Push For Leahy’s Forest Wildfire Plan Over White House’s Bill - 9/9/03

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - 3/19/03

Press Release - Senators Jeffords, Lieberman and Leahy Oppose Exemptions For Defense Dept. From Environmental Laws - Call On DoD Authorization Conferees To Reject House Actions To Weaken Environmental Protections

Reaction - Of Sen. Patrick Leahy -- Senate Derails Move For Drilling In Arctic Refuge - 4/18/02


Environmental Protection

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Senate Floor "The Greenwashing Of The Bush Anti-Environmental Record On The President’s Earth Day Visits To Maine And Florida"  04/26/04

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy On The Senate Floor On The Bush Administration’s Environmental Shakedowns 04/22/04

News Release - Leahy Secures $3.15 Million To Conserve Working Forests In Chittenden County - 11/06/03

StatementOf Senator Patrick Leahy Climate Stewardship Act Of 2003, S.139 10/30/03

News Release - Leahy Bill Would Require Full Funding Of Conservation Programs Important To Vermont And Its Farmers - 10/22/03

News Release - Jeffords And Leahy Announce  $3 Million For Elizabeth Mine Superfund Site In Strafford, Vermont 7/16/03

Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy Environmental Exemptions To Department Of Defense Authorization Bill 05/21/03

Remarks - Of Senator Patrick Leahy At The Environmental Rollbacks News Conference - 1/16/03

Letter to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Todd Whitman, and  Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army, R.L. Brownlee Superfund, Takings Legislation, Clean Air Act and Climate Change

Press Release - Vermont Gets $1.7 Million In Farm Conservation Funds Under Leahy’s Expanded Farmland Protection Program - 9/6/02

Hearing Statement - Of Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, Joint Hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Committee on the Environment and Public Works on "Clearing The Air: New Source Review Policy, Regulations and Enforcement Activities" - 7/16/02

Press Release and Fact Sheet - Much More Than Dairy - The Rest Of The Farm Bill Story For Vermont - 5/8/02

Press Release - Leahy: President Bush's 'Clear Skies' Plan Would Hurt Northeast Most Of All - 4/22/02

Hearing Statement - Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittee on VA-HUD and Independent Agencies Hearing on EPA Budget for FY2003, Witness:  Administrator Whitman - 3/20/02

Press Release - Much More Than Dairy -- Senate Passed Farm Bill Is Best Ever For Vermont And For The Environment - 2/15/02

Press Release - Reaction of Sen. Leahy to the Justice Department's Announcement on 'New Source Review' Clean Air Lawsuits - 1/15/02

Press Release - Leahy, Jeffords Set Joint Hearing on Clean Air Rollback Plan - 1/8/02


MTBE (methy tertiary butyl ether)

Sen. Patrick Leahy praises environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Carol Browner


Acid Rain

Letter - From Senators Leahy, Jeffords and Lieberman To Inspector General Tinsley About New Source Review Enforcement - 10/22/03

Reaction - Of Senator Patrick Leahy To Newly Released 2001 Memo From EPA Administrator Whitman To Vice President Cheney About Proposed Clean Air Rules Changes (New Source Review) 10/15/03

New Report Commissioned by Leahy Shows Clean Air Laws Failing to Halt Acid Rain in Northeast - 3/27/00


Mercury Toxicity Profile

Comment Of Senator Patrick Leahy on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services New Recommendations for a Mercury Toxicity Profile - 4/19/99


Lake Champlain

News Release - Leahy Secures Millions More For Lake Champlain In Budget Bill Signed Wednesday By President Bush 12/08/04

News Release - Leahy And Jeffords Introduce Bill To Set The Stage For Lake Champlain’s 400th Anniversary  07/23/04

News Release - Record Year For Lake Champlain. . . Leahy Secures $7.3 M. For Lake Cleanup - 1/23/04

Delegation Press Release - Vermont and New York Senators Introduce "Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lake Champlain Basin Program Act Of 2002"- 9/12/02

Press Release - Leahy Seeks More Funds For Lake Champlain Lamprey Control - 6/11/02

Statement - Lake Champlain and the Sea Grant Program - 3/24/98


 

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