WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee unanimously passed the Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025, legislation to reauthorize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Brownfields program, and the Strategies to Eliminate Waste and Accelerate Recycling Development (STEWARD) Act, legislation to improve our nation’s recycling and composting systems.  The Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025 wasintroduced by U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the EPW Committee,andthe STEWARD Act was introduced by Chairman Capito, and U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.). The Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2025: “Cleaning up brownfield sites can be costly and

U.S. manufacturing sector contributes $2.65 trillion to the U.S. economy, employs nearly 13 million American workers & accounts for 10.3% of nation’s GDP WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee passed the bipartisan Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act, led by Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Committee, and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the Committee. The bill would authorize the Department of Commerce to strengthen American supply chains for critical industries and emerging technologies by working with the private sector and U.S. government partners to anticipate and

WASHINGTON, D.C.– Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester, joined 37 of her colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing their deep concern regarding the growing chaos and dysfunction at the U.S. Department of State and the Trump Administration’s illegal attempt to destroy the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID is a critical pillar of U.S. national security strategy, providing lifesaving aid and development support around the world to help ensure stability. Yesterday, personnel at USAID were not permitted to enter the agency’s headquarters, and Elon Musk announced that President Donald Trump agreed to close the agency and move it