September 29, 2006 - MARKEY SLAMS REPUBLICAN-CHEMICAL INDUSTRY DEAL FOR PROTECTING SPECIAL INTERESTS, NOT AMERICANS
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee, delivered the following statement today, condemning a Homeland Security Appropriations bill, for its staggeringly weak chemical security provisions. While in July the Homeland Security committee provided bipartisan support for a bill mandating that facilities shift to safer chemicals and methods at high risk sites, the Republicans’ back-room deal exempts 90% of facilities that could harm more than 10,000 people from any risk assessment and site security measures whatsoever. Markey urged his colleagues to strike key provisions that weakened the bill, in order to diminish the vulnerabilities such facilities have to terrorist attack.
August 22, 2006 - MARKEY REACTS TO LYNN LNG SECURITY BREACH
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security and Energy and Commerce Committees, responded to a security breach at the Lynn LNG facility tonight:
July 27, 2006 - MARKEY BLASTS PALTRY FINE OF SEABROOK NUCLEAR FACILITY
Washington, D.C. -- Today, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s fine on the Seabrook Nuclear reactor in New Hampshire:
May 17, 2006- Lawmakers Concerned That Corporate Influence Superseded Nuclear Security Concerns
WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior Member of the House Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security Committees, and Representative William D. Delahunt (D-MA), senior Democrat on the House International Relations Oversight and Investigations Committee today sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) asking questions about a recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report which revealed that the NRC altered its security regulations for nuclear reactors in response to industry pressure.
April 10, 2006- Answers Demanded on Turkey Point Nuclear Reaction Problems
WASHINGTON, DC- Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and a long time advocate for strong nuclear plant safety regulations and enforcement thereof, sent a letter today to Nils J. Diaz, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) asking questions about recent reports of the NRC sending an Augmented Inspection Team to the Turkey Point nuclear reactor site in Florida City to find out the cause of certain “equipment damage” at the reactor. This dispatch is of special concern since it is the second such team that has been sent in just over six weeks.
