News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to put federal dollars to good use making homes energy efficient and creating jobs, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators led by Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are urging the U.S. Department of Energy... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to help millions of Americans who are struggling with their energy bills as winter approaches, a bipartisan group of 40 U.S. Senators, led by Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), are calling on the Obama... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today announced that the Obama Administration is releasing $3.1 billion in low-income heating assistance funds under the FY 2013 Continuing Resolution.  Under this release, Rhode Island will... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to help millions of Americans who are struggling with their energy bills as winter approaches, a bipartisan group of 40 U.S. Senators, led by Jack Reed (D-RI) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), are calling on the Obama... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) and Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) today expressed their encouragement that the continuing resolution, which would fund the federal government for six months, includes language that... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed today congratulated Classical High School and Nathan Bishop Middle School for being selected among the first winners of the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon Schools recognition.  The... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to protect consumers and curb rising gas prices, U.S. Senator Jack Reed is backing President Obama’s efforts to strengthen federal oversight of oil markets, stiffen penalties for market manipulation, and... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Tonight the U.S. Senate voted to advance a measure that would end tax subsidies for large oil companies.  U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a cosponsor of the Repeal Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act, wants to end corporate welfare... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – After the oil industry claimed this week that fewer environmental regulations, continuing $4 billion in annual U.S. taxpayer subsidies to private oil companies, and allowing drilling anywhere on federal land and along the... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – After securing an important go-ahead from federal officials, the Ocean State today took a critical step toward developing commercial wind programs in federal waters off the coast of Rhode Island through the U.S. Department of... Read More

CRANSTON, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed is concerned that sharply rising gasoline prices could slow Rhode Island’s economy.  Reed has fought for a national energy policy that creates jobs, reduces our dependence on foreign oil, and... Read More

Washington, DC - In an effort to provide federal assistance to households struggling with home energy bills, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) is once again leading the effort to restore federal heating assistance to low income families and fixed income... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI - As winter approaches, there is significantly less federal funding available this year for low-income families to get home heating assistance after Congress cut over $1.2 billion dollars from the Low Income Home... Read More

Washington, DC – In an effort to help create jobs and spur construction of clean energy projects in Rhode Island, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse are calling on Congress to extend a series of expiring clean energy and efficiency... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), along with Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), introduced bipartisan legislation to restore funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).  LIHEAP... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - With energy costs rising and winter approaching, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators led by Jack Reed (D-RI), Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are keeping the heat on Congress to restore funding for the Low Income... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to prevent millions of Americans from being left out in the cold this winter, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) are seeking to restore funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program... Read More

WASHINGTON - As part of Interior’s “Smart from the Start” offshore wind energy initiative to spur rapid and responsible siting, leasing and construction of new wind projects, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed, Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Environment, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Representative Jim Langevin, and U.S. Representative David Cicilline today announced... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today welcomed the Obama Administration’s move to quickly release 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the next 30 days in conjunction with the release of 30... Read More