Representative Chellie Pingree
| District |
Maine 1st |
| Key Coastal Communities |
Rockland, Portland, Brunswick |
| Party |
Democrat |
| Term |
3rd |
| Committees |
Appropriations |
| Caucuses |
House Oceans Caucus, Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition |
| Quote |
"We have a unique opportunity to take concrete steps to protect and preserve the environment. We just need to show the political will to take advantage of it.”
“Those who say we have to choose between a healthy environment and a healthy economy are wrong. The truth is we can have both. In fact, Maine's natural resources are closely linked to jobs, our image and our way of life. Protecting those resources is essential if we want to grow the Maine economy.” |
| Websites |
www.chelliepingree.com
www.pingree.house.gov/ |
| Links |
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Leadership: Since arriving in Congress, Pingree has taken a firm stance on oceans protection and environmental issues. From fighting to ensure our fishermen have access to working waterfronts to supporting the scientific research and stock assessments necessary to ensure the accurate setting of quotas, Pingree has worked to make Maine’s fisheries and coastal communities more sustainable.
In the past year, Congressman Pingree has sponsored the Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2014 as well as cosponsored legislation focused on limiting land-based marine debris.
Pingree was also instrumental in bringing the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control bill back to the House floor for a second, successful vote. She supports renewable energy development, such as offshore wind and was also an original cosponsor of the Coastal Jobs Creation Act. Certain overfished fisheries may need to be closed at a difficult economic time for fishermen. Instead of weakening fishing governance and further depleting threatened fisheries, the Coastal Jobs Creation Act would provide opportunities for fishermen to work with scientists collecting data on stock assessments and reducing bycatch, and on collecting marine debris and reducing pollution.
Representative Pingree sponsored:
- H.R. 4692 (Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2014)
- H.R. 2197 (York River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2013)
- H.R. 3391 (Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act of 2011)
- H.R. 3109 (Keep America's Waterfronts Working Act of 2011)
- H.R. 3286 (Local Farms, Foods, and Jobs Act of 2011)
Representative Pingree cosponsored:
- H.R. 5283 (Land-Based Marine Debris Reduction Act of 2014)
- H.R. 4732 (Ocean Acidification Innovation Act of 2014)
- H.R. 139 (Udall-Eisenhower Arctic Wilderness Act of 2013)
- H.R. 584 (To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require labeling of genetically engineered fish, 2013)
- H.R. 609 (End Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act of 2013)
- H.R. 764 (Coastal State Climate Change Planning Act of 2013)
- H.R. 924 (Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act of 2013)
- H.R. 996 (Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2013)
- H.R. 1175 (FRESHER Act of 2013): To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and direct the Secreaty of the Interior to conduct a study with respect to storm water runoff from oil and gas operations, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 1590 (Shellfish Marketing Assistance Fairness Act of 2013)
- H.R. 1630 (America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2013)
- H.R. 1808 (Main Coastal Islands Wildnerness Act of 2011, of 2013)
- H.R. 1837 (Clean Water Protection Act of 2013)
- H.R. 5864 (Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2012)
- H.R. 4208 (Fisheries Investment and Regulatory Relief Act of 2012)
- H.R. 3570 (Oceans and Human Health Reauthorizatoin Act of 2011)
- H.R. 2484 (Harmful Algal Blooms and Hyoxia Research and Control Amendments of 2011)
- H.R. 594 (Coastal Job Creation Act of 2011)
- H.R. 492 (Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act of 2011)
- H.R. 601 (End Big Oil Subsidies Act of 2011)
- H.R. 3570 (Oceans and Human Health Reauthorization Act of 2011)
- H.R. 5214 (Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act of 2010)
- H.R. 5241 (BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Inquiry Commission Act of 2010)
- H.R. 5697 (To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit leasing in the North Atlantic Planning Area of 2010)
- H.R. 5301 (Clean Estuaries Act of 2010)
- H.R. 14 (Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2009)
- H.R. 365 (Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act of 2009)
- H.R. 366 (Ocean Research and Exploration Enhancement Act of 2009)
- H.R. 367 (Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009)
- H.R. 368 (Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act of 2009)
- H.R. 1080 (Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act of 2009)
- H.R. 1310 (Clean Water Protection Act of 2009)
- H.R. 3650 (Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2009)
- H.R. 3644 (Ocean, Coastal, and Watershed Education Act, 2009)
- H.R. 5214 (Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act of 2010)
- H.R. 5241 (BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Inquiry Commission Act of 2010)
- H.R. 5697 (To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit leasing in the North Atlantic Planning Area of 2010)
- H.R. 594 (Coastal Job Creation Act of 2011)
- H.R. 492 (Big Oil Bailout Prevention Act of 2011)
- H.R. 601 (End Big Oil Subsidies Act of 2011)
- H.R. 2984 (Maine Coastal Islands Wilderness Act of 2011)
- H.R. 3570 (Oceans and Human Healh Reauthorization Act of 2011)