Energy and Environment
Information regarding my stance on Energy and Environment issues.
Democrats tore into an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan Wednesday that would bar the agency from relying on scientific studies that don't release their underlying data — a controversial proposal resurfacing this week with reports that the agency may expand the reach of the rule.
Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) has asked the EPA to hold off on finalizing a rule until the National Academy of Sciences can conduct a review. She sent a letter to the group Wednesday asking for their analysis.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici says the current impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump may draw most of the public's attention, but the House is working on other issues affecting people's lives.
As an example, Bonamici said, a House subcommittee she leads has produced a bill (HR 4334) to extend federal spending authority under the Older Americans Act, which was originally passed in 1965.
A Portland-based industrial company completed the construction of a first of its kind renewable wave energy device.
"As we transition to a clean energy economy we have to recognize the wonderful potential and the great potential of marine energy can help us meet our clean energy needs but also create so many good paying jobs," Oregon Democratic Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici said.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici said she would likely vote to impeach President Donald Trump based on the evidence that has emerged so far about his appeals to Ukraine to investigate a political rival.
"In the past, I've expressed concerns about policy differences with this administration," Bonamici said at a town hall Monday night at Gearhart Elementary School. "But when we learned the president was compromising our national security and raising national security issues, that's when I said my constituents and Americans deserve to get the facts."
On Wednesday, the United Nations released an alarming report on global climate change, specifically how the build up of greenhouse gases is impacting the world's oceans and ice. Much of the warmth trapped in Earth's atmosphere by human-made carbon dioxide has been absorbed by the oceans and the impacts have been stark.
Ocean warming has more than doubled since 1993,according to this morning's report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "The world's ocean and cryosphere have been 'taking the heat' from climate change for decades, and consequences for nature and humanity are sweeping and severe," Ko Barrett, vice-chair of the IPCC, said in a statement.