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May 11, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC - This week House Republicans will continue their legislative agenda to increase irresponsible oil and gas drilling, while touting their thoroughly debunked argument that ‘drill baby drill’ will lower gas prices. In response, the leaders of the 48-member House of Representatives Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) released the following statement:


Apr 20, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC - On the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the members of the House of Representatives Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) again called for congressional action to implement the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the BP Oil Spill. The commission’s report, released in February, urged the Congress to strengthen oversight of offshore drilling, and indicated that congressional action was necessary in order to avoid the possibility of another disastrous spill. SEEC co-chairs Reps.


Apr 6, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC – Today Reps. Jay Inslee (D-WA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Lois Capps (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Paul Tonko (D-NY), and Steve Cohen (D-TN) - members of the House Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) - joined with representatives from the Union of Concerned Scientists, American Lung Association, and Operation Free in calling for the House to reject the Dirty Air Act - H.R. 910. SEEC released the following statement opposing the legislation:


Mar 31, 2011

Washington, DC - This afternoon, fifty-six Democratic members of the House of Representatives, who recently supported short-term budget Continuing Resolutions (CR) to continue funding for the federal government, sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner expressing reservations for future support for another CR or budget if it contains policy “riders” that would gut important bi-partisan environmental protections. Unlike H.R.


Mar 16, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC - Today the members of the House of Representatives Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) expressed strong support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed standards to protect public health from mercury, arsenic, and other toxic pollution emitted from power plants.


Feb 17, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC - This week the members of the House of Representatives Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) announced their opposition to Republican legislation that would gut funding for important protections for public health and the environment, and defund vital domestic clean energy programs.


Feb 7, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC -- The members of the House of Representatives Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) sent a letter today to House Republican leaders urging them to prioritize congressional action on the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the BP Oil Spill. The Commission’s report, released last month, made several recommendations to the Congress to strengthen regulation and oversight of the offshore drilling industry, and indicated that congressional action was necessary in order to avoid the possibility of another disastrous spill.


Feb 3, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC - Today members of the House of Representatives Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) blasted Republican draft legislation to repeal Clean Air Act standards for carbon, methane, and other pollution. SEEC leaders said that this “Dirty Air Act” would gut important pollution controls and roll back American clean energy progress in favor of bigger profits for Big Polluters.


Jan 26, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC – Following tonight's State of the Union Address in which President Obama called for a focus on investment and policies to grow America's clean energy economy, the leaders of the Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) welcomed the President's remarks. Since its founding at the start of the 111th Congress, SEEC - a caucus of 47 House Democrats - has sought to advance policies that will grow promising domestic clean energy industries, arguing the economic, national security, and environmental benefits of renewable energy and energy efficiency.


Jan 21, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC - Today Congressmen Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Steve Israel (D-NY) - the Co-Chairs of the Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) - applauded the comments of President Barack Obama as he toured a General Electric Co. facility in Schenectady, New York and spoke on the importance of clean energy to America’s economic future: