Subcommittee hearing entitled “Advancing Environmental Protection Through Science and Technology.”
Witness:
Dr. Maureen Gwinn, Deputy Associate Administrator for Science, Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions, Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Maureen Gwinn serves as the Deputy Associate Administrator for Science (DAA-S) in OASES. Dr. Gwinn previously served as the Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development (ORD) and Science Advisor at the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). In this role, she provided direction to ORD on overall program goals, objectives, policies, strategies, technical and scientific approaches, and program plans, based on a recognized scientific expertise. She also chaired the Agency Science Technology and Policy Council and oversaw the Agency’s scientific integrity program.
Dr. Gwinn held multiple leadership roles within ORD including Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Chief Scientist, National Program Director for ORD’s Sustainable and Healthy Communities (SHC) National Research Program, Director of the Biomolecular and Computational Toxicology Division within ORD’s Center for Computational Toxicology Exposure, Senior Science Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science and Associate National Program Director for Community Public Health in SHC.
Dr. Gwinn joined the US EPA in ORD’s National Center for Environmental Assessment, where she worked on human health hazard assessments for the Integrated Risk Information System program.
Dr. Gwinn earned her BS degree in Biology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and her MS and PhD in Oral Biology at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York. She became a diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology in 2007 and was nominated to the Academy of Toxicological Sciences in 2014.
H.R. ____, To prohibit engine idling restrictions for over-the-road buses and school buses if an engine idles for less than 15 minutes, and for other purposes
H.R. ____, State Emissions Authority Act of 2026 (Rep. Grothman), to repeal the mandatory requirements for State motor vehicle inspection and maintenance programs
H.R. 2165, Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act (Rep. Walberg)
H.R. 7000, Freedom to Fuel Act (Rep. Moore), to amend the Clean Air Act to exclude a portable fuel container from the definition of a consumer or commercial product
H.R. 8782, PLOW Storms Act (Rep. Bergman), to include dedicated-use municipal snow removal vehicles and machinery as examples of an emergency vehicle in the definition of covered fleet
The hearing also covers one bill to strengthen Clean Air Act:
H.R. 2140, Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2025 (Reps. Matsui and Langworthy)
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:
H.R. 2406 (Rep. Bonamici), “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Improvements Act of 2025”
H.R. 8401 (Rep. Begich), To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the transport, purchase, and sale of pelts of, and handicrafts, garments, and art produced from, Southcentral and Southeast Alaska northern sea otters that are taken for subsistence purposes.
H.R. 8542 (Rep. Ezell), “Offshore Parity Act of 2026”, to extend state-level authority over fishing and offshore fossil-fuel leases in federal Gulf of Mexico waters from three to nine nautical miles
H.R. 8904 (Rep. Radewagen), To amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to prohbit Presidential proclamations from from regulating fishing in marine national monuments.
On Wednesday, June 3, at 10:00 a.m., U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, will hold a hearing examining the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) proposed budget for fiscal year 2027.
Witness:
Sean McMaster, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation