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Environment

February 12, 2018

Long Branch, N.J. – On Monday February 12, at Clean Ocean Action headquarters, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. and environmental leaders stood together to oppose the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) consideration of permits to allow seismic testing off the Jersey Shore.


January 5, 2018

Washington, D.C. – Today Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) blasted the Trump Administration for unveiling a reckless plan to open nearly all U.S. waters, including the Atlantic, for offshore drilling.

Issues: Environment

October 16, 2017

Washington, D.C. – Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced plans to roll back the Clean Power Plan:

Issues: Environment

August 11, 2017

Washington, D.C. – Congressmen Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and Frank A. LoBiondo (NJ-02) led a bipartisan group of 66 members of the House of Representatives in sending a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, opposing any effort to allow oil and gas leasing in the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Issues: Environment

July 21, 2017

SEA BRIGHT, N.J. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (N.J.-06) today announced the introduction of legislation to protect our beaches by setting national coastal water quality standards, and providing federal funding to states to test water quality and notify the public when conditions are unsafe.


July 10, 2017

New Brunswick, NJ — Today at the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund Site in Laurence Harbor, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) and the New Jersey Sierra Club commemorated the creation of the EPA on July 9, 1970. The agency was created through bipartisan efforts during the Nixon administration to protect the nation’s air and water quality and prevent various forms of pollution.


July 6, 2017

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) sent a letter to the new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator William B. Long, raising concerns over the agency’s lack of action in resolving flood insurance claims from Superstorm Sandy.


June 28, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) helped lead bipartisan reauthorization of the Brownfields program through the Energy and Commerce Committee. The Brownfields program was created in 2002 by legislation authored by Pallone and the late Republican Ohio Rep. Paul Gillmor.

Issues: Environment