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March 4, 2025
Washington, D.C. – The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko and Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Suzanne Bonamici, Sean Casten, Mike Levin, and Chellie Pingree, released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress that painted a dishonest picture of the state of American affairs.
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February 27, 2025
Washington, D.C. – The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko and Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Suzanne Bonamici, Sean Casten, Mike Levin, and Chellie Pingree, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin, condemning his reported recommendation that the White House strike down the landmark EPA Endangerment Finding, which has for over 14 years followed the science and protected Americans from planet-warming pollution.
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February 27, 2025
Washington, D.C. – The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko and Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Suzanne Bonamici, Sean Casten, Mike Levin, and Chellie Pingree, released the following statement in response to the passage of the Republican-led resolutions to rescind the Department of Energy’s (DOE) energy efficiency standards for tankless water heaters (H.J.Res. 20) and overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) methane polluter fee (H.J.Res. 35).

SEEC IN THE NEWS

Jan 22, 2025

A House Democratic caucus pilloried President Donald Trump’s first set of executive actions, accusing him of working to “gut our bedrock pollution and environmental protections.”

But in a multipage letter filled with both bullet points and outrage, the leaders of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition offered something of an olive branch.


Jan 22, 2025

Democrats who woke up to an avalanche of executive orders from President Donald Trump Tuesday morning are scrambling to strike back against the White House’s new fossil fuel-focused "energy dominance" regime.


Dec 05, 2024

A bipartisan House bill introduced Wednesday would require NOAA Fisheries to conduct new research on whales to provide more accurate information about their core feeding and calving habitats as well as migration patterns.


Dec 05, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson has made clear he supports taking a “scalpel,” not a “sledgehammer,” to the Democrats’ 2022 climate law.

But as the prospect of doing away with billions of dollars of energy and climate subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act in the next Congress is looking closer to becoming a reality, GOP lawmakers — and business groups with a stake in that funding — are amplifying concerns that such an effort would be misguided.


Nov 07, 2024

Democrats and their environment-minded allies are facing a narrowing window to halt Republican plans to roll back gains made in the last four years.

After losing Democratic control of the Senate and watching Vice President Kamala Harris concede her race for the White House to former President Donald Trump, the focus now is on the House(link is external) to see whether Democrats can eke out a narrow majority to prevent a GOP governing “trifecta” in Washington.


SEEC IN THE NEWS

Jan 22, 2025

A House Democratic caucus pilloried President Donald Trump’s first set of executive actions, accusing him of working to “gut our bedrock pollution and environmental protections.”


Jan 22, 2025

Democrats who woke up to an avalanche of executive orders from President Donald Trump Tuesday morning are scrambling to strike back against the White House’s new fossil fuel-focused "energy dominance" regime.


Dec 05, 2024

A bipartisan House bill introduced Wednesday would require NOAA Fisheries to conduct new research on whales to provide more accurate information about their core feeding and calving habitats as well as migration patterns.


Dec 05, 2024

House Speaker Mike Johnson has made clear he supports taking a “scalpel,” not a “sledgehammer,” to the Democrats’ 2022 climate law.


Nov 07, 2024

Democrats and their environment-minded allies are facing a narrowing window to halt Republican plans to roll back gains made in the last four years.