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TOLEDO – Congresswoman Kaptur welcomed the federal Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative here for its Midwest regional summit meeting by urging a recommitment to the goal of energy independence as a way to create jobs and keep America strong.
"We have a long tradition of innovation in our state—from the Wright Brothers to Edison to Kettering—and we must also innovate our way to energy independence," Kaptur said to attendees of the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored event at the University of Toledo.
"We appreciate Assistant Secretary (Dave) Danielson coming to this hotspot for energy development."
Facilities Sustained Damage During Hurricane Sandy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2013
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) today announced $2.9 million to replace the World War II-era Quonset huts at Camp Perry and make additional improvements to the facility, including storm drainage and sidewalks.
"We've been working for more than a dozen years to upgrade these facilities at Camp Perry," said Congresswoman Kaptur, who serves on the defense subcommittee of House Appropriations.
Congresswoman Kaptur said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Toledo $200,000 to help develop an area-wide strategy to develop the Overland Industrial Park in conjunction with the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority.
"This award demonstrates the federal commitment to helping make the Overland Industrial Park a successful engine for job growth in our city," Congresswoman Kaptur said.
Toledo was one of only 20 projects across the country to share in the EPA's $4 million Brownfields Area-Wide Planning program, which seeks to help communities develop abandoned and potentially contaminated waste sites.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Toledo is one of 10 communities that will be added to a major federal initiative aimed at revitalizing urban waterways, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur announced today.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Bob Persiacepe will make the official announcement tomorrow afternoon at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
"Including Toledo in the Urban Waters Federal Partnership program is a big step forward for us," said Congresswoman Kaptur. "We worked hard to get our region included in this initiative because a healthy Lake Erie is vitally important to a healthy local economy."
Dr. Hong, a business professor at the University of Toledo, was born in Korea. He was Congresswoman Kaptur's special guest to the House chamber to hear President Park address the U.S. House and Senate on May 9.
President Park, the first woman president in Korean history, earlier conducted a summit meeting with President Obama.
During her speech to the joint session, President Park reiterated her demand that the government of North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons program. She said her country will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea.
WASHINGTON D.C. - - Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur served as the keynote speaker at the 13th Polish–American Conference on Science and Technology being held in Washington, DC. The conference was organized by Ohio State University and the Institute of Aviation of Warsaw.
SANDUSKY -- Congresswoman Kaptur said current tests underway here illustrate the value of NASA's Plum Brook station to America's space program.
Congresswoman Kaptur viewed the fairing testing that is currently underway in Sandusky on the new Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket in the world.
Large Crowd at Put-in-Bay Ceremony Celebrates
17th Coin in 'America, the Beautiful Quarters Program'
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Says Ranking Member on Energy and Water Subcommitte
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-9), ranking member on the Energy and Water subcommittee of House Appropriations, said today the Obama Administration budget reflects a renewed focus on addressing phosphorus and nitrogen pollution in America's waters.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget identifies nutrition pollution as "one of the nation's most widespread and challenging environmental problems."