(March 20, 2025) — This week, Science Committee leaders introduced bills that would institute a moratorium on reductions in force (RIF) at federal science agencies under the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology’s jurisdiction. Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren sponsored the bills. Ranking Member Valerie Foushee of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Ranking Member Deborah Ross of the Subcommittee on Energy, Ranking Member Haley Stevens of the Subcommittee on Research and Technology, and R… Continue Reading
DURHAM, NC (March 18, 2025) — Today, Congresswomen Valerie Foushee (NC-04), Deborah Ross (NC-02), and Zoe Logren (CA-18), Ranking Members of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, slammed the Trump administration’s plan to cut as many as 1,155 scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD). ORD has a major research facility in Research Triangle Park (RTP). More than 2,000 full-time federal employees work at the RTP EPA campus, an… Continue Reading
(March 13, 2025) —This week, Congresswoman Valerie Foushee (D-NC) and Congressman Max Miller (R-OH) reintroduced the IMPACT Act 2.0, bipartisan legislation that will boost American innovation and manufacturing in low-emissions cement, concrete, and asphalt production, and advance market demand for these innovative materials in the transportation and industrial manufacturing sectors. Hard-to-abate industrial sectors account for 23% of total U.S. GHG emissions and 31% of global emissions. Critica… Continue Reading