New BLM proposal would open up millions of acres of Western Oregon forests to new commercial timber production Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Val Hoyle, Andrea Salinas, Janelle Bynum and Maxine Dexter this week called on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
WATCH: Wyden unveils legislation at Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on power grid resilience Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley today introduced legislation that would overhaul aging power line infrastructure and improve efficiency in order to bring down energy costs and reduce wildfire risks
Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley announced that his bipartisan Wastewater Infrastructure Pollution Prevention and Environmental Safety (WIPPES) Act unanimously passed the Senate. Merkley leads the WIPPES Act with Maine’s U.S. Senator Susan Collins. The WIPPES Act would address health, ecosystem, and wastewater infrastructure concerns caused by the flushing of non-flushable wipes.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Montana’s U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy led a bipartisan effort to reauthorize the Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP), a popular federal program that provides transportation options to public lands. The Senators’ bipartisan FLAP Reauthorization Act ensures the program will not expire
Washington, DC – El miembro de mayor rango Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), la representante Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) y la representante Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.), junto con los senadores Angus King (I-Maine), el miembro de mayor rango Martin Heinrich (D.M.) y Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), presentaron un escrito de amicus curiae en un tribunal federal oponiéndose al plan del presidente Trump de erigir un “Arco de la Independencia” de 250 pies en terrenos de parques federales en
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) demanding answers from the National Park Service (NPS) following reports that
Washington, D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden announced that $4,250,606 in federal funding is coming to Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center to support critical health services for uninsured and underinsured Oregonians in Washington and Yamhill counties. “Access to quality health care should never depend on your ZIP
“La EPA no ha dado ninguna razón por la que sus acciones ilegales para deshacer las asignaciones del Congreso deban mantenerse”, escribieron los legisladores Washington, DC.— Senadores estadounidenses Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), miembro de mayor rango del Comité de Medio Ambiente y Obras Públicas del Senado (EPW); Bernie Sanders (I-VT) y Jeff Merkley (D-OR) y Representantes estadounidenses Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX-07)
Proyectos dedicados a mejorar la vivienda, la atención médica y el transporte e infraestructura Washington, DC – Los senadores estadounidenses de Oregón, Jeff Merkley y Ron Wyden, anunciaron hoy que consiguieron más de 1.040.920 millones de dólares en inversiones federales para proyectos comunitarios esenciales en casi todos los condados de Oregón en el paquete de financiación final que recientemente
Bill Would Fund Mitigation and Research on Spotted Wing Drosophila Which Continue to Threaten Cherry, Blueberry, and Other Fruit Crops Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) have reintroduced bipartisan legislation to combat the spread of spotted wing drosophila
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