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Five community projects in Middlesex County will share more than $3.7 million in federal aid under a $1.5 trillion spending package passed by the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
The projects are:
With gas prices at or near record highs, Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. has asked oil company executives to explain why fuel costs so much. Pallone, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has asked executives of BP, Chevron, Devon Energy Corp., ExxonMobil, Pioneer Natural Resources, and Royal Dutch Shell to testify on April 6 at a hearing on high gas prices.
More than $35 million in funding from the federal bipartisan infrastructure bill will be used to repair two waterways in Middlesex County, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone said Thursday.
If you are losing faith that Washington can respond rationally to the climate crisis, Rep. Frank Pallone, chairman of the committee handling climate policy, might be able to cheer you up.
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, the king of coal, the man who sunk a knife into the Build Back Better bill, supports nearly all its climate change provisions. He killed the bill for other reasons, mainly its overall cost, and the child tax credit.
New Jersey has 114 Superfund sites – the most in the nation – and the pace at which these savagely polluted quagmires are cleaned up is unacceptably slow.
Here are a few facts that should infuriate us all:
· A study by the Rand Corporation found that prescription drug costs in America are nearly triple the cost in comparable countries, a finding echoed in earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office.
An incoming tide of federal dollars aims to lift a few boats, bait shops and seafood markets in the Garden State.
New Jersey is set to receive another $9.5 million in COVID-19 relief money for the state's fishing industry, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-6th, announced Tuesday.
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (AP) — With New Jersey's commercial fishing industry about to receive a second round of federal coronavirus aid, boat owners and those who run fishing-related businesses say the extra money is helping keep them afloat amid a sea of red ink.
The state's fishing industry received $11 million last March under the CARES Act, an early aid bill passed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Anyone who believes in science knows by now that America has been a global villain when it comes to climate change, even before President Trump arrived and turned up the heat.
Now, we can exhale a bit, because Democrats are making their first serious push in more than a decade to enact legislation that meets the moment. And driving that effort in the House is our own Rep. Frank Pallone, the bill's chief author, and the most powerful member of New Jersey's delegation.
The most powerful New Jerseyan in Congress is spearheading a sweeping plan to fight climate change and lay a foundation for a cleaner economy in America.