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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,…
Washington, D.C. – Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement regarding the Administration’s nomination of Ernest Moniz to replace current Energy Secretary Steven Chu:…
Washington, D.C. – Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for a clear analysis of the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline on U.S. consumers, following the…
Washington, D.C. – Today Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate maintenance and monitoring procedures at the Department of Energy’s Hanford…
Washington, D.C. – The Department of the Interior (DOI) has developed an action plan and convened a task force – with a focus on sales to overseas markets – to…
Washington, D.C. — Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden asked the Department of the Interior to ensure oil and natural gas production on public lands is done in…
Washington, D.C. – Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) issued the following statement regarding the Administration’s nomination of Sally Jewell to replace current Secretary of the Interior…
Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, February 12, the full Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing under Chairman Wyden’s leadership. The committee will consider issues surrounding natural…
Washington, D.C. – Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) issued the following statement regarding Secretary of Energy Steven Chu’s announcement that he will step down: “Secretary Chu…
“In 1981, in his first inaugural address, President Reagan said, ‘Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.’” “I came to the Senate two years…
Senator Ron Wyden, the incoming chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has named longtime aide Joshua Sheinkman as the committee’s next staff director. As staff director, Sheinkman…
Today, the Democratic Steering Committee approved committee assignments for Democratic senators in the 113th Congress. The anticipated assignments to Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee: Ron Wyden, Chairman (OR)…
The Senate unanimously approved a bill (H.R. 6582) tonight that makes time-sensitive reforms, provides regulatory relief to manufacturers of certain appliances and strengthens the industrial efficiency and the Federal agency…
Last Friday, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Office of Inspector General released its final audit report of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Helium Program. The BLM Helium…
With post-Sandy response, recovery and rebuilding now underway, including New York City’s subway system, it is worth reminding reporters about the hearing that the Senate Energy Committee held last spring…