WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded today's decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve construction and operating licenses for two new nuclear reactors at SCANA's V.C. Summer plant in South Carolina. After over three decades of inaction, this is the second pair of new reactors approved by the NRC this year.
Chairman Upton made the following statement:
WASHINGTON, DC -- Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, spoke with Fox News' Bill Hemmer on America's Newsroom this morning about rising gasoline prices and efforts by House Republicans to pursue a true "all-of-the-above" energy strategy.
Republican members pushed back strongly this week against EPA's new proposed rule regulating greenhouse gases for new coal plants.
WASHINGTON, DC - On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), and other members of the committee wrote to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson today with a series of additional questions on matters discussed during the committee's recent he
To read the letter, click here.
To read EPA's June 12, 2012 response, click here.