WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tom Carper (D-DE) penned a joint op-ed today for the Chicago Sun-Times explaining why they launched the Senate's first-ever Environmental Justice Caucus. Drawing on the powerful history of the movement against environmental racism (including Hazel Johnson's efforts on the South Side of Chicago), the Senators highlighted the public health and env more PR

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: If you happen to be driving across the desert of southeastern Idaho among the miles and miles of sagebrush, you will notice a lone faded brick building nestled near the base of the Big Southern Butte, standing out starkly against the sweeping blue horizon. This building, Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) Atomic Museum, serves as an insight into the history of nuclear  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following floor remarks regarding escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran nearly one year after the Trump Administration pulled the U.S. out of the carefully negotiated Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: "Earlier this week, while out for a run a couple of miles from here - around the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial - I ran past the Vietnam Memorial. Whenever I do that, I take my left hand and run it along the names of 55,0 more PR