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Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) introduced the West Coast Ocean Protection Act to permanently prohibit offshore drilling on the outer continental shelf off…
Washington, D.C. – Today, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) applauded the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for taking a critical step toward protecting the Methow Headwaters in…
Download a PDF of the letter from Sen. Cantwell to Vice President-Elect Pence. Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Committee on Energy and…
Cantwell Has “A Keen Interest in Ensuring the 15,000 Washingtonians … Employed by the Department Are Not Mistreated Or Subject to Intimidation” Download a PDF of the letter from Sen….
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, made the following statement on the formation of Breakthrough Energy Ventures,…
Watch the full video of her speech here. The speech was part of an effort to strip a surprise ‘midnight rider’ amendment from the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation…
Watch her floor speech here. Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, urged her colleagues to encourage the…
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, put out the following statement on the energy and natural resources…
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) urged the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to take immediate action…
Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) applauded the administration’s proposed final program of the Outer Continental Shelf…
Download a PDF of her statement here. Watch her floor speech here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) led…
Download a PDF of the letter here. Washington, DC—Today, the effort in Congress to protect the Methow Headwaters led by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) took another…
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) applauded the National Park Service’s (NPS) announcement of more than $1.5 million in Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) grants to…
Download a PDF of Sen. Cantwell’s opening statement here. Watch her opening statement here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell…
Washington, DC – Today, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) joined leading scientists who provided new data showing that the majority of ponderosa pine forests…
Washington, D.C.– Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, applauded the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for working to establish a…
Washington, DC – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) welcomed the release of a new report from the National Academies of Sciences,…
Watch Sen. Cantwell’s opening statement. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) spoke during the opening session of the conference…
Richland, Wash. – Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) commended the new five-year contract extension, through 2022, for Battelle Memorial…
Richland, Wash. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz convened a roundtable discussion at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to focus on…
Washington, D.C. – Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) commended the Department of the Interior’s step forward to begin creating new…
Cantwell, Moniz Talk Oil Volatility and Making Crude Safer for Transportation Watch the field hearing live on Sen. Cantwell’s Facebook page. Seattle, Wash.– Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) led…
Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) joined a bipartisan letter, signed by 40 of her Senate colleagues, urging the Obama administration to increase its proposed 2018 Renewable…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and 23 other senators have sent a letter to President Barack Obama…
LWCF Provides a Cleaner Environment, More Jobs, Economic Benefits, More Open Space and Increased Public Access to the Outdoors Seattle – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural…