ICYMI: Wall Street Journal: Biden’s Monkeywrencher
By: Kimberley A. Strassel July 8, 2021 Wall Street Journal “P.S. You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt.” Thus reads a note sent in 1989 to the U.S. Forest Service by Tracy Stone-Manning, now President Biden’s nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management. Presidents are generally […]
ICYMI: Barrasso Op-Ed: US Energy Independence is Vital – Biden’s Policies could Destroy it
By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso July 2, 2021 Fox News Every Fourth of July, Americans pile into their vehicles and take to the roads to celebrate our independence. We drive to backyard cookouts, town parades, community pools and local firework shows to celebrate the events of 1776. In 2019, America celebrated a different kind […]
Manchin, Capito Announce $1,250,000 For Clean Hydrogen Research At West Virginia University
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today announced $1,250,000 from the Department of Energy (DOE) for a hydrogen research project through the West Virginia University Research Corporation. This project advances the production of next-generation clean hydrogen technologies and supports […]
ICYMI: Barrasso Op-Ed: The Coming Biden Climate Intellectual Property Crisis
By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso June 28, 2021 Newsweek As Rahm Emanuel, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, famously quipped, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” President Joe Biden has taken that advice to heart. He’s used the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to spend trillions of dollars while weakening […]
Manchin, Cardin, Carper, Whitehouse, Booker Introduce Bill To Extend Production Tax Credit For Zero-Emission Energy Sources To Existing Nuclear Plants
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Ben Cardin (D-MD), Tom Carper (D-DE), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Cory Booker (D-NJ), introduced the Zero-Emission Nuclear Power Production Credit Act of 2021 (S. 2291) that would make existing merchant nuclear power owners/operators eligible for the same 1.5 cent/kilowatt hour credit […]
Barrasso: Tracy Stone-Manning Lied to the Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement in response to the E&E News story regarding Tracy Stone-Manning’s involvement with a 1989 tree spiking case in Idaho. E&E interviewed a federal investigator who was on the case. He confirmed […]
Barrasso Applauds the Supreme Court for Upholding Hardship Relief for Small Refineries
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court upholding hardship relief for small refineries under the Renewable Fuel Standard. “The Supreme Court has upheld the law by defending hardship relief for small […]
Manchin Leads Robust Discussion On Infrastructure Proposal
To watch a video of Senator Manchin’s opening remarks, please click here. To watch a video of Senator Manchin’s questioning, please click here. Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water, and public lands, and to […]
Committee Witnesses Applaud Manchin-Led Energy Infrastructure Proposal
To watch a video of Senator Manchin’s opening remarks, please click here. Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water, and public lands, and to consider an infrastructure proposal. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, highlighted […]
Barrasso: We Should Work to Build a Broad Consensus on Energy Infrastructure Legislation
Click here to watch Ranking Member Barrasso’s remarks. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the infrastructure needs of the U.S. energy sector, western water and public lands, and to consider this […]