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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…
Senators Seek Answers on BP Pipeline Situation in Alaska Seeming Inaction on Maintenance Deemed ‘Inexcusable’ U.S. Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman, chairman and ranking member of the…
Many of you are wondering whether Sen. Bill Nelson’s conditional support of S. 3711 (the Senate’s Gulf drilling bill) means that the legislation will pass next week. If it does,…
S.3711, the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 Key Concerns Analysis by the Democratic Staff of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee An Overall…
What do Americans care about when it comes to energy? Americans want action to keep energy affordable, now and for the long term. Americans want a broader range of energy…
Gasoline prices north of $3 and war where much of the world’s oil comes from are two potent alarms that are sounding about our national thirst for oil. The U.S….
This letter to Interior Secretary Kempthorne conveys concerns about an oil and gas lease sale scheduled for this September in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). While some 2.8 million…
The House today passed a bill (H.R. 4761) that calls for oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf; the legislation also has far-reaching implications for onshore public lands…
One year ago today, the United States Senate, on a bipartisan vote, approved a Sense of the Senate on climate change. That declaration was a major step in the congressional…
Senate Negotiators Reach Agreement on Cape Wind Language in Coast Guard Bill Deal preserves integrity of EPACT siting process Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Pete Domenici and Ranking…
The Energy Department has announced that it is considering dismantling the Office of Environment, Safety & Health (ES&H) and transferring the oversight and enforcement responsibilities of that office to another…
Next Thursday, The Enhanced Energy Security Act (S. 2747) gets a hearing in the Senate Energy Committee. That bill, introduced by a bipartisan group of senators led by Bingaman, Bayh…
Today the House Appropriations Committee went on record in support of addressing global warming through a mandatory cap on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, as long as the program does not…
Bipartisan Bill Aims To Boost Efficiency, Reduce U.S. Reliance on Imported Oil In a display of bipartisanship on a critical national issue, Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Evan Bayh (D-IN),…