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  • Upton Calls On EPA for Greater Transparency Over Potentially Devastating Cooling Water Regulations
    Dec 3, 2010  - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson for greater transparency as the agency considers action on cooling water intake structures at existing electric generation and man... More
  • Holiday Mail for Heroes a Chance to Remember Our Troops & Vets This Holiday Season
    Dec 2, 2010  - Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) is reminding folks in southwest Michigan to keep our troops and veterans foremost in their thoughts by participating in the Holiday Mail for Heroes program.  For the fourth year, the American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes Inc. have joined forces for the Holiday Mai... More
  • Permanently Extending Tax Cuts will Help Jumpstart Our Economy and Create Jobs
    Dec 2, 2010  - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today expressed his concerns that Speaker Pelosi’s most recent tax stunt further imperils the nation's families and small businesses.  The move threatens to extend the current period of elevated unemployment a... More
  • Upton Urges FCC to Cease and Desist on Net Neutrality
    Dec 1, 2010  - Congressman Fred Upton (R-Michigan), senior member and former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, made the following statement in regard to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski’s expressed intention to regulate the Interne... More
  • Upton Blasts Administration's Offshore Drilling Moratorium
    Dec 1, 2010  - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today expressed disappointment in response to the Obama Administration's expanding its offshore drilling moratorium.  Upton, co-chair of the American Energy Solutions Group, strongly supports an “all of the abov... More
  • Upton & Whitfield Alarmed EPA Boiler Rule Change will Cost Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs - Reps. Urge Commerce Secretary to Release Pivotal Economic Analysis
    Nov 30, 2010  - U.S. Reps. Fred Upton (MI-06) and Ed Whitfield (KY-01), senior Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to immediately release the department's economic impact analysis of EPA's Boiler Maximum Available Control Technology (MACT) rule.  Up... More
  • A Season of Thanks
    Nov 24, 2010  - This week, many folks will travel across the country to reunite with their loved ones for Thanksgiving. It is a chance for all of us to briefly pause from the hustle and bustle of our daily lives and gather with friends and family to give thanks for all the blessing in our lives.  Thanksgiving is ... More
  • Upton to Department of Energy: "Where Are the Jobs?"
    Nov 23, 2010  - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is seeking answers from Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the impact the administration's $800 billion stimulus package had on jobs.  Despite repeated claims that the stimulus would keep the nation's ... More
  • Upton Fights EPA‘s Misguided Coal Ash Rule that Could Cost Billions and Eliminate Thousands of Jobs
    Nov 22, 2010  - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to stand down in its efforts to regulate coal combustion residuals (CCRs).  Upton pointed out that EPA already concluded in its final 2000 regulatory determination t... More
  • Upton Urges FCC to Stand Down in Pursuit of Net Neutrality with Congress Out of Town
    Nov 19, 2010  - Congressman Fred Upton (R-Michigan), senior member and former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, made the following statement in response to various press reports that the FCC is gearing up to circumvent Congress in regulating broadband. “I hope that ... More