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“Astonishingly, just days after celebrating the first anniversary of the release of its national energy policy, the Bush Administration today weakened a major efficiency standard for air conditioners. This rollback…
“The Administration’s reassessment of the oil and gas potential of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is great news for our nation’s energy future. It also validates the Democratic view that this…
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, May 15 to investigate price manipulation in Western energy markets during 2000-01, as revealed in documents released this…
“Yesterday, FERC released important information on price manipulation in Western electricity markets by Enron Corporation. Those documents, provided by the new management at Enron, are part of the FERC investigation…
Named Tonight: Senate conferees to the House-Senate conference on the energy bill are Bingaman, Hollings, Baucus, Kerry, Rockefeller, Breaux, Reid, Jeffords, Lieberman, Murkowski, Domenici, Grassley, Nickles, Lott, Craig, Campbell and…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will review the outlook for this year’s wildland fire season as well as assess the Federal land management agencies’ state of readiness for…
— Reduces America’s dependence on foreign oil — Increases domestic supplies of fossil fuels — Promotes new sources of affordable, reliable, clean energy — Protects the environment — Creates hundreds…
“Today, pursuant to the law, I filed a resolution approving Yucca Mountain, Nev., for the development of a centralized storage site for high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. As…
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Senate Energy Committee chairman, today asked Interior Secretary Gale Norton to release preliminary results of a U.S. Geological Survey assessment of the estimated oil and gas resources…
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Sen. Jack Reed, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, have released two reports comparing job creation in the…
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has scheduled a full committee hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 6, to examine the effects of amendments to the Public Utility Holding Company…
The purpose of this hearing is to receive testimony about the impact of the ENRON bankruptcy on energy markets. The problems of accounting misrepresentations, lost pension funds and potential tax…
The Senate and Natural Resources Committee has scheduled a full committee hearing to receive testimony on the implications for consumers and energy markets of the Enron bankruptcy. The committee will…
The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold a business meeting in the President’s Room, S-216, in the Capitol, immediately following the first roll call vote tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec….
“The consequences for energy markets of Enron’s collapse are unclear, but highlight the importance of issues such as data transparency and competition in the natural gas and electricity markets. The…
“Senator Daschle’s approach to legislating energy is both sensible and responsible: The Senate has an obligation to first wrap up its work on issues dealing with our nation’s budget, and…
A more efficient air-conditioning standard is an important part of a national energy strategy. The previous administration had finalized a rule that mandated a 30 percent increase in efficiency for…
At the invitation of the Senate Energy Committee’s majority staff, Republican committee staffers and legislative assistants today joined in two final meetings that the Democrats arranged to discuss energy legislation….
The Senate, by unanimous consent on Tuesday, approved legislation (HR 2925) to strengthen the ability for law enforcement officials to protect dams and other Bureau of Reclamation facilities across the…
Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I am here to address another aspect of the energy issue that will come before us as comprehensive energy legislation, hopefully either this fall or early…
Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman today reiterated his longtime support for filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) with federal royalty oil: “With oil prices declining and tensions in the Middle…
The past year has been a roller-coaster year in energy policy: • Last winter, extremely high natural gas prices, with consumers seeing fuel bills 3-4 times previous year. • This…
At the request of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman today suspended any further mark-up of energy legislation for this session of…
Energy legislation in the Senate is set to resume on two parallel tracks, Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman announced today. First, the committee will focus attention on urgent infrastructure security…
Good morning. The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the status of proposals for the transportation of natural gas from Alaska to markets in the lower 48…