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In its FY08 budget request, the Bush Administration again is proposing a big sell-off of public lands as part of its proposal for the Forest Service and the Interior Department….
Chairman Jeff Bingaman: DOE Budget Scores Overall Increase, Yet Important Gaps in Energy Policy Remain Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) welcomed increases in a number of Department of Energy…
Chairman Jeff Bingaman On U.N. Report on Global Warming Feb. 2, 2007 “This U.N. report is only the latest in a series of signals that increase the urgency of…
Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Week of February 5, 2007 Ø On Wednesday, Feb. 7, the full Committee will welcome Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman at an oversight…
Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Transportation Biofuels Conference Dirksen G50 – Feb. 1, 2007 (Conference to be webcast on www.energy.senate.gov) Panel 1, Issue Overview and Policy…
Jeff Bingaman Prepared Testimony before Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Jan. 30, 2007 “Thank you Senator Boxer and Members of the Committee. “The 2005…
Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Week of January 29, 2007 Ø On Tuesday, Jan. 30, the full Committee will examine Federal efforts to contain the costs of…
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…“America’s roadmap to energy security needs aggressive goals, such as the ones laid out yesterday by the Senate Energy Committee Democrats. We will have to take a close look at…
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Business Meeting WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 24 at 9:45 a.m. WHAT: Organizational Business Meeting WHERE: Dirksen 366 WHY: To adopt…
Accelerated biofuels diversity is a priority for the Senate Energy Committee. Given its potential contribution to our nation’s energy security (and with biofuels expected to loom large in tonight’s State…
Senate Energy Committee Democrats today detailed their major energy policy priorities for this session of Congress. Although this is not an all-inclusive list, and while Democrats will work in a…
Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) today circulated a draft climate proposal — the latest step in a process to establish a mandatory program for regulating greenhouse gas…
Reporters on the climate beat know that addressing global warming is a top legislative priority for Senate Democrats. What may be news to some, perhaps, is that the committees engaged…
Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Week of January 22, 2007 Ø On Wednesday, Jan. 24, the full Committee will hear testimony on the Energy Information Administration’s analysis…
Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) On Passage of H.R. 6 – The Clean Energy Act of 2007 January 18, 2007 “I congratulate the House of Representatives for acting to remedy the…
STATEMENT OF SENATOR BINGAMAN Oversight Hearing on Oil and Gas Royalty Management January 18, 2007 Today the Committee will hear from witnesses on the topic of oil and…
It is a pleasure to announce Bob Simon’s election as a AAAS Fellow. Many reporters about town have benefited from Bob’s grasp of policies and politics related to energy, the…
Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) On Changes at the U.S. Forest Service January 12, 2007 “Chief Bosworth led the Forest Service when it started its second hundred years recently. He’ll…
Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Week of January 15, 2007 ü On Thursday, Jan. 18, the full Committee holds an oversight hearing on the oil and…
EIA Analysis of Mandatory Climate Legislation Shows: Detailed Plan Won’t Harm U.S. Economy The Energy Information Administration (EIA) today released an analysis of a highly detailed discussion draft on global…
Building on the success of last year’s energy-themed conferences on climate, on natural gas, on coal, etc., the Senate Energy Committee has scheduled a similar all-day session to examine the…
Floor Statement of Sen. Jeff Bingaman S.6 National Energy and Environmental Security Act of 2007 “Mr. President, I’m pleased to cosponsor S. 6, the National Energy and Environment Security…
A bipartisan group of 42 senators sent a letter to President Bush asking him to include in his FY08 budget request a proposal to extend the renewable energy production tax…
Apparently eager to avoid Congressional and public scrutiny, the U.S. Forest Service has continued its holiday tradition of trying to bury bad news. Yesterday, just hours after Congress adjourned, the…