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U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett represents communities from Austin in the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves as Ranking Member of the Health Subcommittee on the House Ways & Means Committee, the oldest committee of the United States Congress. Doggett is also a member of the Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee, the Joint Committee on Taxation, and the House Budget Committee.
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Two Texas Democrats are urging EPA to reject the state’s application to gain top regulatory oversight of carbon dioxide injection wells, pointing to a “lax attitude” toward enforcement at the Texas agency that would oversee the program.
Issues:Protecting Our Planet
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) and Joaquin Castro (D-San Antonio) urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Secretary Michael Regan to reject the Texas Railroad Commission’s application for primacy enforcement of the Class VI underground injection control (UIC) well program under the Safe Water Drinking Act.
Issues:Protecting Our Planet
Merkley, Whitehouse, Doggett Introduce Resolution Designating July as Plastic Pollution Action Month
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-37), U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) teamed up to introduce a bicameral resolution designating July as Plastic Pollution Action Month, citing extreme concern over the plastic pollution crisis that is threatening human health, dumping tens of millions of pieces of plastic in the ocean, and killing hundreds of thousands of animals every year.
Issues:Protecting Our Planet