Environment

As top Republican on the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, I will work with my colleagues to promote a common-sense and balanced approach to a fact-based energy and infrastructure policy that harnesses the power of America's job creators to grow and maintain a strong economy. My focuses include:

• Holding the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and other federal agencies accountable to President Obama’s promise that his Administration would become “the most open and transparent in history”
• Ensuring that federal agencies consider the comprehensive economic cost versus environmental benefit before creating and enacting new rules and regulations that affect businesses, land owners, states, and counties
• Requesting that future rule-making is based on sound science before implementation

Latest

• Vitter Urges Dept. of Commerce to Discard Controversial Red Snapper Proposal

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Penny Pritzker, Secretary of the Department of Commerce. In the letter, Vitter urges Secretary Pritzker to deny a request by the Gulf of Mexico Regional Fishing Management Council (Gulf Council) to divide the recreational red snapper sector.

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  Posted on 12/04/14

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• Vitter Files Amicus Brief to Protect Louisiana Private Property Rights from Clean Water Act Overreach

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding an amicus curiae brief he filed in support of a petition to bring the case of Kent Recycling Services, LLC v. U.S. Corps of Engineers before the Supreme Court. Kent Recycling, a Louisiana company, is being forced to pay up to $300,000 for a permit to build on private property in Assumption Parish.

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  Posted on 12/03/14

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• Vitter Passes Duck Stamp Bill to Assist Duck Habitat Conservation

  

  Posted on 12/02/14

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• Vitter Passes Duck Stamp Bill to Assist Duck Habitat Conservation

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today passed the Federal Duck Stamp Act of 2014, which would update the price of the duck stamp for the first time since 1991.

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  Posted on 12/02/14

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• Vitter Comments on Judge Ruling That BP was Grossly Negligent in Deepwater Horizon

  (Metairie, La.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today made the following statement on the U.S. District Court for Eastern District ruling that BP was grossly negligent in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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  Posted on 09/04/14

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• Vitter Hosts Field Briefing on EPA’s Upcoming Ozone Standards in Lake Charles

  

  Posted on 08/25/14

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• Vitter Asks Administration to Allow Old Rig to Remain as Artificial Reef in Gulf of Mexico

  (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, requesting that the Department allow a collapsed structure to remain serving as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico.

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  Posted on 08/25/14

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• Vitter Discusses EPA Ozone Regulations and Border Crisis with KPLC in Lake Charles

  

  Posted on 08/22/14

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• Vitter: Gulf Council Considers Red Snapper Allocation Pushed by NY Based Environmental Activist Group

  (Baton Rouge, La.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter, top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), made the following statement regarding the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council public hearing in Baton Rouge today. They are discussing stakeholder views on an amendment that Vitter says would cut off additional access to offshore resources for Louisianians. 

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  Posted on 08/18/14

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• Vitter Announces RESTORE Act Recovery Funds to Finally Start Flowing

  (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the U.S. Treasury Department’s Interim Final Rule under the Resources and Ecosystem Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States (RESTORE) Act, which establishes grant programs for the Gulf States, including Louisiana, to receive funds for environmental restoration and economic development projects.

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  Posted on 08/13/14

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