Cantwell Statement On Report From Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Recommending Changes To The Bears Ears National Monument
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) made the following statement on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s report to President Trump recommending major changes to the protected status and conserved acreage of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument: “Secretary Zinke’s proposal to remove protection from parts of the […]
Cantwell Statement On Privatization Of Bonneville Power Administration’s Transmission Assets
Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) responded to the report released today by McCullough Research on the privatization of Bonneville Power Administration’s transmission assets. The McCullough report examines the proposal to sell the Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA) transmission assets included in the Trump administration’s […]
Cantwell Statement On Russian Ability To Attack U.S. Energy Grid
Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) responded to reports that the Russians have expanded their capabilities with respect to cyber-attacks against our electric grid. Dragos, a cybersecurity firm that studied the malware used to disrupt Ukraine’s energy grid and shut down one-fifth of the […]
Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Cantwell Announce Upcoming Committee Schedule
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today announced several hearings for the coming weeks. The full committee hearings will examine the president’s budget requests for the U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior and Department of Energy for Fiscal Year 2018. The subcommittee hearings will receive testimony for several water-related bills and examine […]
Panel Reviews Cost Reductions in Emerging Energy Technologies
In what was easily the most anticipated hearing on Capitol Hill this morning, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, held an oversight hearing to consider cost trends in emerging energy technologies. Committee members heard from a variety of witnesses who detailed cost reductions in everything from oil and natural gas to renewables, energy storage, and alternative […]
Murkowski Applauds New Secretarial Order on Sage Grouse
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today expressed her support for the secretarial order signed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to improve sage grouse conservation and strengthen consultation between the federal government and western states. Secretarial Order 3353 establishes an internal review team to evaluate and make recommendations on the land use plans finalized in 2015 […]
Cantwell, Colleagues Oppose Proposal To Auction Off DOE Transmission Assets
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and a bipartisan group of Western senators wrote to Energy Secretary Rick Perry to oppose a provision in the President’s FY 2018 Budget that would auction off the transmission assets of the Department of Energy’s Power Marketing Administrations […]
Cantwell Votes No On David Bernhardt for DOI Secretary
Watch video of Sen. Cantwell’s opening statement here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) voted “no” on the Trump Administration’s nominee for the Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior, David Bernhardt. Explaining her opposition Sen. Cantwell said, “Next to the Secretary, […]
Committee Advances Nominees for Interior, Energy, and FERC
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today held a business meeting to advance four nominees to the Senate floor: David Bernhardt to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior, Dan Brouillette to be Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson to be Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). “Secretary […]
Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Cantwell Announce Upcoming Committee Schedule
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today announced a business meeting and four hearings for the coming weeks. The business meeting will focus on the pending nominations for the Deputy Secretary of the Interior, Deputy Secretary of Energy, and members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The hearings will focus on improving […]