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Press Releases

Barton, Walden Ask DOE Secretary Chu to Explain Plans to Shut Down Yucca (November 18, 2009)

Chemical Plant Bill Is Environmental Law Disguised in Security Clothing, Barton Says (October 14, 2009)

Capping jobs, trading in misery — wrong answers to global warming (September 29, 2009)

Economist Ike Brannon Joins E&C Republicans (September 11, 2009)

Barton, Upton Introduce Nuclear Recycling Bill (July 30, 2009)

How Congress’s drive to stop global warming is fueling China’s drive to out-compete the U.S. (July 22, 2009)

Republicans Ask Locke to Explain Administration Position on Americans Making Amends to World for Global Warming (July 22, 2009)

Have You Heard? WSJ: The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic (July 3, 2009)

Have You Heard? WSJ: The Climate Change Climate Change (July 1, 2009)

Draft of Report Suppressed at EPA Shows Why Agency’s Career Staff Challenged CO2 Endangerment Ruling (June 26, 2009)

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Letters

Letter to Secretary Chu Regarding DOE's Decision Making Concerning Yucca Mountain (November 18, 2009)

Response from NRC regarding Combined License Applications (October 16, 2009)

Letter to Acting Comptroller General Dodaro Regarding Yucca Mountain (October 1, 2009)

Letter to NRC Chairman Jaczko Regarding the Commission's Regulatory Bottleneck (September 17, 2009)

Letter to EPA Administrator Jackson Regarding EPA's Economic Modeling for Waxman-Markey (September 10, 2009)

Response from EPA Regarding a Waiver Request to Increase the Ethanol Content In Gasoline (July 27, 2009)

Response from EPA Administrator Jackson Regarding the CO2 Endangerment Finding (July 10, 2009)

Response from Chairman Waxman Regarding an Investigation into EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding (June 29, 2009)

Response from EPA regarding the Anne Sholtz Emissions-Trading Fraud Case (June 26, 2009)

Letter to Chairman Waxman and Chairman Stupak Requesting an Investigation into EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding (June 25, 2009)

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Republican Views

Section-by-Section Analysis of H.R. 2454, ACES Legislation, as Reported on June, 5 2009 (June 23, 2009)

Republican Views on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (June 8, 2009)

Executive Summary of Waxman-Markey Climate Legislation (April 22, 2009)

Section-By-Section Analysis of Waxman-Markey Climate Legislation (April 22, 2009)

U.S. Representative Joe Barton

U.S. Representative Joe L. Barton
Joe Barton was first elected to congress by the people of Texas' Sixth Congressional District in 1984. In 2004, he was selected by his House colleagues to be the chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce...
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