News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an $852,735 performance partnership grant (PPG) to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) to help protect human health and the... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline, today announced $1.98 million to prepare Rhode Island’s coastline for rising seas.  The funding comes from the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to reduce the high cost of flood damage, U.S. Senator Jack Reed was joined by Senators John Kennedy (R-LA) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) this week in introducing new legislation that would establish a state-revolving... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) issued the following statement after President Trump announced he plans to pull the United States out of the landmark, 195-signatory Paris Climate Accord, which would significantly slow the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – With reports that the Trump Administration will be pulling the United States out of the Paris agreement, U.S. Senators Bob Menendez  (D-NJ) and Jack Reed (D-RI) wrote to President Trump urging his Administration to first... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Daniel K. Inouye Institute honored U.S. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island on Wednesday, May 17 for his long-standing support of the American maritime industry. Joined by dozens of maritime and Senate leaders, Sen. Reed... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- As the era of driverless cars and trucks approaches, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), the Ranking Member and Chairman at the helm the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – This week, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse joined nine of their Democratic colleagues in reintroducing the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act in an effort to increase environmental... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) says that reauthorizing the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is critical to the stability of the real estate market and Rhode Island’s economy and must be a top priority for Congress... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced that he will vote against the nomination of Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  In advance of the vote by the full U.S. Senate, Reed issued the following... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In a continued effort to help struggling families stay safe and healthy through initiatives that assist with energy costs, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), who helm the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Five years after U.S. Senator Jack Reed first called for a national strategy to combat Lyme disease, Congress passed the Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act.  The bipartisan legislation,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after it was reported that President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a... Read More

JOHNSTON, RI – Rhode Island’s mill dams helped shape the Industrial Revolution. Now, federal, state, and local officials are working together to try to keep Rhode Island’s dams in better shape. Today, at the Almy Dam in Johnston,... Read More

NARRAGANSETT, RI – Four years after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast in October 2012 and damaged several coastal wildlife refuges and marshes in Rhode Island and other communities, a new, federally-funded saltmarsh restoration project is... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate voted 95-3 to pass a bipartisan Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) that includes key provisions authored by U.S. Senator Jack Reed to enhance water infrastructure and reduce the threat of lead... Read More

9/1/2016 - WASHINGTON, DC - Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline today announced that the University of Rhode Island (URI), in collaboration with its Inner Space Center, the Graduate... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI — In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Senator Jack Reed today joined members of the NPS’s Junior Ranger program in presenting the NPS with a birthday cake at Roger Williams National Memorial... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following a years-long push from U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jack Reed (D-RI), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) Appropriations... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate overcame a procedural hurdle and voted 68-29 to invoke cloture on an amendment to provide $1.1 billion of emergency funding to stop the spread of the Zika virus and develop a vaccine.  The... Read More