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Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and U.S. Representatives Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.-06) and Denny Heck (D-Wash.-10) announced the reintroduction of bills that would…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, questioned two nominees to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released a new white paper that outlines legislative principles to address…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, questioned the National Park Service on its plans to choose a…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, reiterated the importance of having better data and analysis on the…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, slammed proposals to roll back the clock on consumer and job…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, highlighted the devastating impacts in Washington state due to drought. She…

Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its analysis of the Clean Power Plan’s proposed rule. Although this report provides helpful analyses, the results need to…

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.) in introducing legislation…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, discussed her energy workforce bill and urged consideration of carbon reduction…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, discussed the need for a multi-pronged approach to updating our dynamic…

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, has unveiled several bills to be considered for bipartisan, comprehensive energy…

Washington, D.C. – Today, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators led by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Leadership Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), sent a letter to…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) urged the U.S. Department of the Interior to ensure a fair return to taxpayers now that the comment period has closed…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, (D-Wash.) ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, heard testimony from several of the nation’s leading experts on energy…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, (D-Wash.) ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, heard testimony from Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz on the agency’s…

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation to permanently authorize and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which conserves…

Senator: ‘We have serious challenges that we need to address in a shorter amount of time than it took us to get to this place. We need to find more…

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) today announced that the U.S. Forest Service has agreed to hold additional listening sessions on the proposed Northwest Forest Plan, including some…