Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), top Republican of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality and co-chair of the American Energy Solutions Group, made the following statement is response to the unveiling of the Kerry-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill in the U.S. Senate. “Study after study has predicted cap-and-tax will result in skyrocketing energy bills and massive job losses and Kerry-Lieberman puts a bullseye squarely on the backs of working families who are already struggling to keep the lig... Read more

Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today to express their concerns regarding cleanup of PCB contaminated sediments in the Kalamazoo River watershed. The letter inquires how the April 23, 2010, order approving the Lyondell Chemical Bankruptcy Settlement will impact the EPA’s cleanup plan. Last month, Levin, Stabenow and Upton expressed their concerns with the proposed settlement agreement for L... Read more

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U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), and U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-MI) today expressed their deep concerns with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposed settlement for the Kalamazoo River Superfund site. The $162 million settlement negotiated between the DOJ and Lyondell falls well short of what is necessary to remove harmful PCBs from the Kalamazoo River and Allied Landfill. “I am committed to the full cleanup of the Kalamazoo River Superfund project, w... Read more

Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), ranking Republican of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, submitted the following statement at this morning’s subcommittee markup on the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act of 2010, the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense (GRID) Act, and the Collinsville Renewable Energy Promotion Act. Upton’s full opening statement is provided: Mr. Chairman, thank you for calling this important markup today. I am pleased to say that one of the b... Read more

Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, is urging U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu to preserve all scientific and technical research related to Yucca Mountain. In a letter sent today, Upton expressed concern with the Administration accelerating the project’s termination, fearing important documents and research gathered during the $10 billion, 28-year planning phase could be lost if proper arrangements are not made. “... Read more

Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) today reminded folks in southwest Michigan to set their clocks forward this weekend in observance of daylight saving time (DST). It was Upton’s bipartisan, energy-saving amendment, co-sponsored by Ed Markey (D-MA), that extended daylight saving by four weeks. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) affirmed that extending Daylight Saving Time (DST) for four weeks saves American families nearly $500 million and 2.9 million barrels of oil each year. “Between energ... Read more

The Michigan Congressional Delegation continues their aggressive push to protect the Great Lakes from an invasion of Asian carp, calling on federal agencies to quickly finish and submit to Members a comprehensive response plan by February 5, 2010. The Members directive to the U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agency follows testing on January 19, 2010, positively identifying Asian carp eDNA in Calumet Harbor, Illinois, which abuts ... Read more

Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), ranking Republican of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, made the following statement at this morning’s subcommittee hearing on “The ExxonMobil-XTO Merger: Impacts on U.S. Energy Markets Upton’s full opening statement is provided: Thank you Chairman Markey for calling this important hearing. I welcome our two distinguished witnesses this morning. The topic of the hearing today is the “Impacts of the ExxonMobil-XTO Merger.” I see t... Read more

As the debate over cap-and-trade legislation continues in Congress, Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) today joined Dr. John Dunn, President of Western Michigan University, and researchers from the Michigan Basin Core Research Lab to highlight landmark research being conducted to advance clean coal technologies and reduce harmful greenhouse gases. WMU is a national leader in the development of carbon capture and sequestration technologies, which have the potential to revolutionize the effort ... Read more