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March 8, 2021

House Subcommittee Will Hold Oversight Hearing on Restoring “Vital Mission” of EPA

Lynn L. Bergeson Carla N. Hutton

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a fully remote hearing on March 10, 2021, on “The Path Forward:  Restoring the Vital Mission of EPA.”  According to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s March 3, 2021, press release, the hearing will examine the “critical need to restore the mission” of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and how EPA “can address climate change and other urgent challenges to the nation’s environment and public health.”  Subcommittee members will hear “from former EPA leaders about what steps must be taken to undo the damage done to the agency over the last four years and to re-empower it to fulfill its mission.”  The hearing will be available via live webcast.