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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…
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) today welcomed four new Democratic Senators to the United States Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The four new committee members include two members…
As this session of Congress nears its end, so does this year’s fire season. We expect pressure may reemerge on the topic of salvage logging — a controversial practice where…
Senate Energy Committee Ranking Member Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) today saluted Dr. George F. Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. Dr. Smoot was…
This week, the two top leaders of the U.S. Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist and Democratic Leader Harry Reid, as well as the top Republican and Democratic members of the…
Senators Help America’s Future Keep Pace with Global Competition Today, a bipartisan group of Senators plan to jointly introduce S.3936 — the National Competitiveness Investment Act (NCIA). The NCIA initiative…
Domenici, Bingaman Secure $200 Million To Help Fight Fires During Record Wildfire Season The conference report for the 2007 Defense Appropriations Bill includes a Bingaman-Domenici measure to provide $100 million…
New York Times readers woke to another front page story today about royalties for oil and gas pumped from public lands. Today’s reporting focuses on four government auditors who monitor…
Earlier this month, the Senate passed an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act (sponsored by Sen. Bingaman and cosponsored by Sens. Domenici, Burns, Dorgan, Cantwell, Reid, Salazar and Wyden) to…
Re: public lands, there are two big newsmakers today: In a sweeping decision, a Federal judge in California reinstated Clinton-era protections for nearly 50 million acres of roadless National Forest…
Congressional Budget Office Finds Price Signal for Carbon Control Essential to Maximizing Benefits and Achieving the Lowest Cost A report issued yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)…
By a unanimous voice vote, the Senate today accepted a Bingaman-Domenici amendment (SA-4915) to the Defense Appropriations Act which will provide $275 million in additional funding to the Federal agencies…
The sun bathes the earth with more energy in an hour than the world consumes in a year. As the focuses its attention on developing alternative energy sources, solar power…