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Here is a guest column on energy from Sen. Bingaman that appears in today’s The Hill: Acting on Our Immediate Energy Challenges Three immediate energy challenges face our country this…
All four witnesses at today’s Senate Energy Committee hearing on crude oil and natural gas prices endorsed Sen. Bingaman’s recommendations to the Administration on how to deal with the high…
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) today was joined by Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA), as well as Representatives Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Jay Inslee (D-WA)…
Votes on energy-related bills in the House, originally scheduled for this week, may now be held later this month. That postponement, due to the passing of former President Reagan, has…
The much-advertised "House Energy Week" will likely have a lot to do with election-year politics and little to do with fixing our nation’s energy problems. That’s a shame. America’s energy…
Today GAO released a report titled “Wildfire Suppression: Funding Transfers Cause Project Cancellation and Delays, Strained Relationships and Management Disruptions.” With experts saying that this year’s fire season could be…
With the summer driving season starting this weekend, there are signs that the Bush Administration is giving belated attention to some of the ideas that Sen. Bingaman suggested, beginning over…
This weekend, Energy Secretary Abraham will attend the International Energy Forum in Amsterdam, a high-level, informal ministerial that brings together both energy producing and energy consuming countries to discuss the…
Monday marks the third anniversary of the release of President George W. Bush’s National Energy Policy Plan, more commonly known as the Cheney Energy Task Force report. Such an occasion…
Sen. Bingaman this afternoon offered a defense of the energy tax package that is a part of the corporate tax bill being debated in the Senate. He opposes efforts to…
With gasoline prices hitting new highs near daily and with the summer driving season approaching, the Bush Administration appears to be giving delayed attention to some of the ideas suggested…
Sen. Jeff Bingaman today shared his perspective on renewable energy at a high-level seminar for financial professionals. Bingaman’s views were broadcast live by Bloomberg Television, a global business and financial…
Fifty-five senators today urged Senate appropriators to increase the Department of Energy’s Office of Science FY05 budget by 10 percent over the request level. Nearly a dozen additional senators have…
It’s been almost three weeks since the U.S.-Canadian report on last summer’s blackout was delivered. The first recommendation in that report is for Congress to pass non-controversial reliability language. Without…
Some refiners are opposed to letting more gasoline into the U.S. because it may hurt their bottom line. But their bottom line under current EPA rules for sulfur allotments appears…
Influential policymakers from three countries are gathered in New Mexico this week for the North American Energy Summit. Sponsored by the Western Governors’ Association, the three-day meeting has drawn together…
OPEC’s decision to cut production and to boost world oil prices, and correspondingly, prices at the pump in the United States, have fueled a new discussion over how to reduce…
The bipartisan energy tax package is now officially part of another bill – the FSC/ETI corporate tax bill. This is a satisfying win for Sen. Bingaman, who for months has…
The White House today said it intends to nominate Suedeen G. Kelly of New Mexico to a full five-year term on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. With Senate approval, Kelly’s…
After last summer’s massive blackout, the U.S. and Canadian governments gathered electricity experts to study why the outage occurred and recommend ways to prevent or minimize future power failures. The…
Here is Sen. Bingaman’s reaction to the main energy stories of the day — OPEC’s decision to cut oil production and refinery outages: "OPEC’s decision today is a major setback…
March 24, 2004 The President The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: I am concerned about the impact that rising petroleum and petroleum product prices are having on…
Jeff Bingaman’s position has long been that our chances for making progress on energy this year depend on Congress’s willingness to move forward on what is most needed in energy…
With fuel prices at or near record highs (and still climbing), Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, today identified 13 specific steps that President Bush can take immediately — using existing statutory…
On Wednesday, the air conditioning industry dropped its efforts to overturn a Clinton-era requirement that home air conditioners be 30 percent more energy efficient starting in 2006. The Bush Administration…