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Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement regarding the announcement that Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission…
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Angus King, I-Maine, yesterday introduced the Storage Technology for Renewable and Green Energy Act of…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today encouraged industry leaders, environmentalists and members on both sides of the aisle to build on a…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today emphasized the importance of updating the Department of Energy’s application process for liquefied natural gas exports…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Al Franken, D-Minn., pressed the nation’s top energy official to act quickly to address recent spikes in gasoline prices in the Midwest,…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following comment in response to the Department of Energy’s approval of an export license for…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today asked the Justice Department to investigate whether alleged price manipulation by three major oil companies in…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced the committee passed bills to promote geothermal power, authorize a new wastewater treatment plant in…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement after the Senate overwhelmingly confirmed Dr. Ernest Moniz to be the Secretary of…
Washington, D.C. – Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded the formation of a working group to come up with solutions to adding natural gas to the transportation sector, while addressing…
Washington, D.C. – Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today is inviting stakeholders and others to submit comments in advance of a planned Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on water issues…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced the committee favorably reported five bills that would encourage the growth of hydropower and spur…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the U.S. Forest Service for its announcement that it plans to award contracts for seven next…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., urged the White House to speed up approval of contracts that will reduce federal energy consumption while…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on the departure of David Hayes from the Interior Department: “David deserves thanks…
Washington, D.C. – Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced that the committee voted to favorably report the nomination of Dr. Ernest Moniz to serve as…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., pressed the U.S. Forest Service to speed up timber harvests and blasted the agency’s baffling decision to…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement following the Senate’s bipartisan vote to confirm Sally Jewell to be the Secretary…
Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., announced his support for Dr. Ernest Moniz to serve as the next Secretary of Energy, at the…
Washington, D.C. – Following weeks of fluctuations in the renewable fuels market, Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, asked the Environmental…
Washington, D.C. – Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced that the committee voted to favorably report the nomination of Sally Jewell to be the Secretary…
Washington, D.C. – Representatives of resource-dependent communities, the administration and leading experts on rural economics, voiced support for a plan by Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,…
Washington, D.C. – In its first markup of the 113th Congress, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee today passed 19 bills relating to public lands. All 19 bills were previously…
Washington, D.C. – Following months of record-high gasoline prices, Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the federal Energy Information Administration for data to explain the price…
Washington, D.C. – Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to allow the Northwest to maintain control over its power future,…