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06.15.18

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) wrote to Secretary Zinke in response to Department of Interior’s notice to begin…

06.12.18

Watch Video of Senator Cantwell’s opening statement here.  Watch video of Sen Cantwell’s questions here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria…

06.05.18

Watch Video of Senator Cantwell’s opening statement here. Watch video of Sen Cantwell’s questions here.  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, in a hearing to examine the 2018 Wildland Fire Outlook, Ranking…

05.25.18

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and a bipartisan group of senators wrote to the Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman…

05.23.18

**Watch Sen. Cantwell’s speech here.** Read the full letter here Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) joined Senate…

05.18.18

Bill’s passage comes one day before Washington state marks the 38th anniversary of deadly Mount St. Helens eruption Washington, D.C. – With increased attention on volcanic activity in the United…

05.16.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) joined former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz, David Terry, Executive Director of…

05.10.18

Watch video of the event here. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, (D-Wash.) ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined U.S. Secretary of Agriculture…

05.08.18

Video of Senator Cantwell’s questions can be found here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) questioned the cause of…

04.27.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) made the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s announcement to revise the Well…

04.24.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash) held a hearing to examine the Fiscal Year 2019 Forest Service Budget….

04.24.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Raúl M. Grijalva…

04.19.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), introduced the Clean Coast Act that codifies rules that were finalized by…

04.19.18

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), released the following statement regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s announcement today of…

04.17.18

 Watch video of Sen. Cantwell’s opening statement here.   Watch video of Sen Cantwell’s questions here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee…

04.16.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) made the following statement regarding the Department of the Interior’s Inspector General (IG)…

04.12.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) made the following statement regarding Secretary Zinke’s new proposal to raise park fees…

04.11.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Department of the Interior’s Inspector General released the findings of an investigation regarding the arbitrary reassignment of SES employees requested by Ranking Member of the…

04.05.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report regarding the management of financial assurances for coal mine reclamation. The report requested by Ranking Member of the…

04.05.18

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) wrote to Secretary Zinke requesting he immediately withdraw his proposal to dramatically increase…

04.03.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) released the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s intention to roll back fuel economy standards.  “This misguided rollback of fuel efficiency…

04.03.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Maria Cantwell joined seven Congressional leaders in sending a letter  today to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) regarding troubling reports of reassignments of members of…

03.23.18

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and a bipartisan group of senators wrote to Director of the Office of…

03.22.18

 Watch Sen. Cantwell’s full opening remarks here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) in a hearing to examine…

03.21.18

Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), announced that the omnibus (to be voted on later this week) will…