U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL-14) released the following statement following Republicans’ blocking of a bipartisan amendment to ban offshore drilling off the Gulf of Mexico: “House Republicans blocked my bipartisan amendment to ban oil drilling off the coast of Florida late last night – meaning they will not allow a vote at all.  The amendment with U.S. Rep. Francis Rooney… Read more »

Today, on the heels of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s anti-democratic step barring news organizations from covering an EPA event, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) and her co-chairs of the House Democratic Environmental Message Team, Earl Blumenauer (OR3), Jared Huffman (CA2), and Donald McEachin (VA4), released ‘Trump’s Toxic Team,’ detailing the extent of the corruption, self-dealing and abuse of taxpayer money at the EPA, Department of Interior, and Department of Energy and the impact it is having on the health and safety of the American people. Read more »

Our Florida economy is still at risk because of the policies of President Trump and his Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who more often side with polluters and special interests over clean water, clean air and the businesses and families whose health relies on them. Read more »

Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) led a group of 170 members of Congress in introducing companion resolutions in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives formally calling on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign. The resolution comes in response to Pruitt’s repeated ethics violations, misuse of taxpayer dollars, and actions that fundamentally undermine the mission of the EPA – favoring big polluters at the expense of science, our environment, and the health of children and families. Read more »

Four Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General (IG) Arthur Elkins, Jr. today requesting that his office open an investigation focusing on whether EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has misused or abused his position to inappropriately enrich himself or his family members and whether EPA’s political leadership applied political pressure on Agency ethics officials. Read more »

At a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources today, Walter Cruickshank, acting director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), said Florida is not off the table for offshore drilling activities, contradicting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s tweeted statement just a few days ago about the matter. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Castor (FL14) released the following statement following Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s statement related to offshore oil drilling off of Florida: Read more »

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) released the following statement after the Trump Administration unveiled its dangerous proposal to permit drilling in most U.S. continental shelf waters, including waters off the coast of Florida: Read more »

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14) released the following statement regarding the announcement that EPA Administrator Pruitt would begin unwinding the Clean Power Plan and its carbon pollution reduction goals: Read more »

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (FL14), Vice Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement after Tampa Electric and Emera Inc. announced efforts to significantly expand their use of solar power: Read more »