Environment

I rise in support of my amendment to H.R. 9, which would recognize the importance of the oceans to our global climate system and the international efforts under way to include our oceans in nationally determined contributions, or NDCs, under the Paris Agreement. When we talk about the impacts of manmade climate change, we focus on  the worlds of our lands and air, but we tend… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1), who yesterday personally inspected the Navy’s Pearl City-Waiawa main water line that ruptured last Friday, today urged senior Navy officials in the Pentagon to immediately and fully implement without delay an already-appropriated replacement project.  “This one line services much of the vital water needs of some 92,000… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) yesterday voted with a bipartisan majority in the US House to pass what amounts to be the most important conservation effort approved by Congress in at least a decade. The Natural Resources Management Act will protect approximately 1.3 million acres of wilderness and close to 700,000 acres of recreation and conservation lands… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) tonight voted with a majority of his House colleagues to advance a measure that would avoid a second federal government shutdown by fully funding agencies critical to the operation of the federal government while shoring up the security of the country’s Southern border. The measure was earlier approved by the Senate and now… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) this week followed up on his appointment to the House Committee on Natural Resources with selection of assignments to three subcommittees critical to Hawai’i.   “While Natural Resources covers a whole range of national issues, these assignments provide me with the ability to focus on areas especially important to… Read more »

(Honolulu, HI) – U.S. Congressman Ed Case (Hawai‘i – District 1) has received a second key committee appointment – to the House Committee on Natural Resources.  “This critical committee has jurisdiction over public lands and natural resources and is ground zero for our efforts in Congress to preserve the natural heritage that was gifted to us for generations to come,” said Case. “It… Read more »