Trump administration stopped processing new samples at the Region 6 EPA lab in August with no plan to protect Gulf Coast communities before the new Oklahoma lab is ready Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) called on Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lee Zeldin to request a public meeting to explain how EPA will protect Houston and the Gulf Coast after… Read more »

Two Texas lawmakers are seeking a comprehensive review of the nation’s aging Strategic Petroleum Reserve as the emergency oil stockpile sits at its lowest level since the early 1980s. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, a Houston Democrat, and Rep. August Pfluger, a San Angelo Republican whose district includes much of the Permian Basin, introduced the 21st Century Strategic Petroleum Reserve Act on… Read more »

Representatives Lizzie Fletcher (D) and August Pfluger (R) introduced a bipartisan bill directing the Department of Energy to study ways to modernize the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as U.S. oil inventories reach their lowest level in decades. Bipartisan push to strengthen the SPR Reps. Fletcher and Pfluger introduced the 21st Century Strategic Petroleum Reserve Act, legislation… Read more »

Today, Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) joined U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 6 Administrator Dr. Erthea Nance, Alief ISD Superintendent Dr. Anthony Mays, and Alief ISD Director of Transportation Richard Torres to highlight $7,900,000 in federal grant funding for Alief Independent School District (ISD) to purchase 20 electric school buses.  “As we begin a new… Read more »

Legislation from Texans would create federal working group Lawmakers will also offer language as amendment in E&C markup Bipartisan legislation introduced late Tuesday in the House would create a federal working group to help oversee and streamline the permitting of liquefied natural gas facilities. The previously unreported bill from Texas Reps.… Read more »

A group of local leaders broke ground on a new basin on the south side of Houston that they say will help prevent flooding of nearby houses and businesses. U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Houston) joined Harris County Flood Control District Executive Director Dr. Tina Petersen, Houston City Council Member Abbie Kamin (District C), and City of Houston Chief Recovery Officer Stephen… Read more »

A group of House Democrats from Texas California and Alaska wrote to President Joe Biden Friday urging him to "refocus" his administration's policies on the export of liquefied natural gas. The letter, which was signed by members including Reps. Lizzie Fletcher and Sylvia Garcia, of Houston, Marc Veasey, of Dallas and Henry Cuellar, of Laredo, comes a week after the Biden… Read more »

Houston Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher is urging the Texas Railroad Commission and state legislators to reverse a reduction in funding for the state's orphan well program, warning they could imperil future federal assistance for the state. Fletcher, a Democrat who introduced orphan well legislation that made available $4.6 billion in federal funding through the 2021 Bipartisan… Read more »

Today, on the second anniversary of the signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), highlighted that the Houston region has already received allocations of $911,436,609 in IIJA funding.  The IIJA is the largest, long-term investment in the country’s infrastructure in nearly a century. … Read more »

Houston will receive up to $1.2 billion as part of the Gulf Coast Hydrogen Hub for the purpose of supporting hydrogen initiatives in the region, according to an Oct. 13 news release from the White House. The details The hydrogen hub project will be run by HyVelocity, a group of organizations working together to promote clean hydrogen in Texas, southwest… Read more »