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Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), ranking Democrat on the House Fisheries and Oceans Subcommittee, said today that the House Resources Committee approved legislation he introduced earlier this year that provides additional support to regional and local ocean clean-up efforts.
Washington, D.C. --- In response to a letter sent by U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has agreed to conduct an analysis of the environmental justice impacts of the former Ringwood Superfund site on the surrounding community and to consider re-listing Ringwood as an active Superfund site.
Washington, D.C. --- The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Conference Report that includes funds for the continuation of critical shore protection projects in Monmouth County, said U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ).
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U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the announcement of a criminal indictment of Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff I. Lewis Libby:
Washington, D.C. --- In the wake of new record profits posted by the largest oil and gas corporations, U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced plans to introduce legislation that would impose a windfall profits tax on those companies and return the money to American consumers struggling with high energy prices.
(Washington, DC.) Representatives Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) today reacted with disappointment to Congresss failure to pass a resolution of disapproval on the proposed final Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) list submitted by President Bush to the Congress.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr.
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), ranking Democrat on the House Fisheries and Oceans Subcommittee, gave the following statement today at a House Resources Committee hearing with representatives from the eight Fishery Management Councils on reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Washington, D.C. --- U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent the following letter to Colonel Richard J. Polo, Jr., Commander and District Engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the New York District, requesting the Corps examine the beaches along the Jersey shore following the nor'easter.