Ed Markey

In fact, based on my staff's review, I believe using appropriate market calculations and assumptions in recent coal lease sales could potentially have yielded $200 million additional or more for the American people.

However, three decades after the GAO, at my request, discovered improprieties in coal lease sales in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, recent evaluations of the Federal Coal Program have found that many of the same problems…

Across the Country, thousands of miles of old, leaking natural gas distribution pipelines that run under our streets are costing consumers money, threatening public health and safety with potentially dangerous explosions and contributing…

While the IG report only looked at one type of well, do you think it is possible that other types of wells such as those designed for disposal of hazardous waste and byproducts from oil and gas production might be similarly mismanaged by…

I have introduced legislation in the Senate that would address some of the financial and policy barriers that are an impediment to repairing and replacing our aging, leaking natural gas pipeline infrastructure.

Of the 13 recommendations made in the IG report on the Federal Coal Program, the Bureau of Land Management agreed with the majority of them, although none had been implemented at the time the report was issued.

Your report found that consumers were losing nearly $200 million each year from this leaking natural gas.

In addition to fighting fraud, waste and abuse of power, they ensure the Government works the way Congress intended and the public deserves.

An Office of Inspector General July 2014 report found that EPA was not regulating methane emissions from natural gas distribution pipelines, had not partnered with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, and that its…

These watchdogs must be independent, non-partisan and maintain the highest ethical standards to ensure the public's trust.

The offices of Inspector General are tremendously important to governmental integrity.

Has DOI implemented your recommendations to consistently identify, inspect and manage these disposal wells and ensure compliance with Federal regulations on public lands?

This is why earlier this month, I introduced the Drone Aircraft Privacy and Transparency Act.

In the absence of us putting those protections on the books in this committee, then we are allowing all of these technologies to take off without the values that Americans would want to have being built into this new technology.

We are flying blind, flying and potentially spying robots sounds like science fiction, but they are a reality right now.

We have to put strong, enforceable laws on the books that ensure that ordinary Americans know that information is being gathered about their children.

This is an inanimate object. It has no values, good or bad. We are the ones who are going to have to animate it with the values that we believe it should have.

These 21st century eyes in the skies should not become spies in the skies.

I would just ask to include in the record a report by the International Renewable Energy Agency entitled, 'Africa's Renewable Future.'

So do you tie your investment strategy to saying you do not want to be involved in activities that have corruption?

And I think that is very important because that gives us a reach into these countries, into the governments who would want an expanded role for the U.S.

Sometimes people see things as they are and ask why. I see things as they never were and ask why not.

The 2014 Trade Promotion Authority legislation also included excellent language to guard against some of the protectionist policies that we are seeing.

It is critical that we do all that we can to prevent wildlife trafficking, including by finding those who finance it.

Power Africa is a critical part of improving the lives of millions of people in Africa and supporting economic development across the continent.