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SALEM, Mass. – Last night, Representative Seth Moulton (D-MA) successfully amended the House of Representatives' version of legislation that will fund the government next year to include an additional $1.5 million for research to help scientists, commercial fishermen and conservation groups better protect the critically-endangered North Atlantic right whale. This is on top of the $1 million already included in the bill, bringing Congress’s total FY20 investment to $2.5 million.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton is trying to secure additional funding for North Atlantic right whale research through an amendment to the federal government funding bill for fiscal year 2020.
Moulton, D-Salem, successfully amended the House of Representatives' funding bill to include an additional $1.5 million for cooperative research by federal fishery regulators, commercial fishermen and conservation groups.
The amended funding bill now contains $2.5 million for right whale research.
The STOP CSO Act would require local governments to alert residents within 4 hours if stormwater overwhelms sewage plants and carries sewage into rivers and watersheds. The bill also allows state and local governments use grant funding to create the alert system.
BOSTON — Congressional lawmakers are pressing for more timely public notice of sewage discharges into rivers, lakes and other bodies of water in Massachusetts and elsewhere.
A proposal filed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives by Reps. Seth Moulton, D-Salem and Lori Trahan, D-Westford, would require local governments anywhere in the country to notify the public within four hours of a sewage discharge from combined sewer overflows. The outfalls are part of decades-old sewer and stormwater systems designed to spill when they are inundated, usually by heavy rain.
LYNN — General Electric and union negotiators are bargaining wages, healthcare and retirement at a time when the firm’s aviation business, including the River Works, are the bright spot on GE’s gloomy financial landscape.
With a four-year contract between GE and 11 unions set to expire on June 23, contract talks in Cincinnati entered their third week on Monday. Negotiations on behalf of 6,100 workers include 1,253 International Union of Electric Workers (IUE) Local 201 employees at the River Works.
Funding for GE’s Lynn ITEP program, MIT Lincoln Labs, US Naval Sea Cadets among priorities that clear important legislative hurdle
WASHINGTON —Early yesterday morning, the House Armed Services Committee passed the National Defense Authorization Act. It includes a number of locally-important measures Representative Seth Moulton has championed as a member of the committee. The bill will head to the floor of the House for a vote in July.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s accusation on Thursday that Iran was behind an attack on two oil tankers forces President Trump to confront a choice he has avoided until now: whether to make good on his threat that Tehran would “suffer greatly” if American interests were imperiled.
WASHINGTON – One described a Veterans Affairs police officer throwing a New York veteran seeking therapy to the ground. Another said a California veteran died after receiving similar treatment at the hands of VA police there. A third noted that a VA officer training to be an instructor at the national VA police academy threatened employees with a gun at a Massachusetts car dealership.
The underlying question from lawmakers to VA officials Tuesday: What is going on with VA police?
DUIs, domestic incidents, arrests, police brutality, even murder plots -- members of Congress spent much of a Tuesday hearing detailing horror stories of VA police misconduct.
Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., told Department of Veterans Affairs leadership about a veteran who, while recovering from spinal surgery, was allegedly tackled to the ground by VA police and handcuffed. When he asked for a police report from the incident, he received a summons in the mail to appear in federal court on criminal charges.
After the death of two local high-powered academics in Florida last month, a pair of local congressmen have introduced a measure to address safety concerns in vehicles with keyless ignition.
The legislation, introduced by Democratic Massachusetts congressmen Joe Kennedy III of Newton and Seth Moulton of Salem, comes after the deaths of Sherry H. Penney, 81, the former interim president of the University of Massachusetts, and James Livingston, 88, a retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.