WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, led a hearing (https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2026/3/hearing-to-examine-s-3135-the-cold-weather-diesel-reliability-act) to examine S. 3135, the Cold Weather Diesel Reliability Act.
During the hearing, Chairman Capito asked Ryan Anderson, Commissioner at the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, about the impacts of diesel engine derates on public safety in Alaska and other rural and cold-weather areas. She also asked Todd Fornstrom, President of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, about the ways that e...