Energy and Natural Resources Committee Advances 65 Bills
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today held a business meeting to approve a wide array of legislative proposals. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, thanked her colleagues for their work to develop and report, en bloc and by voice vote, a total of 65 bills from members of both parties. The committee approved seven […]
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Announces Time Change for Business Meeting
**PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE** The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a business meeting on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. EDT in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the business meeting is to consider pending legislation and the Subcommittee assignments for […]
Cantwell, Murray Introduce Bill to Designate Mountains to Sound Greenway as National Heritage Area
Washington, D.C. – Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) introduced a bill to designate Washington state’s Mountains to Sound Greenway—1.5 million acres of land stretching along the Interstate 90 corridor from Seattle to Ellensburg—as a National Heritage Area to help preserve and promote […]
Cantwell, Colleagues Demand Trump Abandon Harmful DOE Cuts
Download a PDF of the letter here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) led 17 Democratic senators in a letter to President Trump urging him to reverse course on his proposal to cut the Department of Energy’s (DOE) fiscal […]
Senators Urge Economic Geologist to Put USGS Back on Track
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., this week sent a letter to President Trump urging him to nominate an economic geologist to be the next director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The letter also encourages the president to refocus the agency on its primary mission, […]
Bipartisan Group Reintroduces Sportsmen’s Act
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Jim Risch, R-Idaho, Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., this week introduced S. 733, the Sportsmen’s Act of 2017. This bipartisan package expands and enhances sportsmen’s access by making federal lands throughout Alaska and the nation “open unless closed” for fishing, hunting, […]
Murkowski: Foreign Mineral Dependence Continues to Grow
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today held a full committee oversight hearing to examine the United States’ increasing dependence on foreign sources of minerals and the opportunities we have to rebuild and improve the domestic supply chain. The hearing touched on numerous issues, including permitting delays, which create a significant obstacle to economically viable domestic […]
Cantwell Statement On Trump Administration Climate Executive Order
Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) made the following statement on the Trump Administration’s executive order: “President Trump’s executive order today marks an irresponsible retreat from making polluters pay, promoting energy efficiency, growing our clean energy economy, addressing the threat of climate change and […]
President Trump Signs Measure Repealing BLM Planning 2.0 Rule
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today joined President Trump at the White House for the signing ceremony of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) disapproval resolution, H.J. Res. 44, which overturns the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Planning 2.0” rule. The resolution passed the U.S. Senate with 51 votes and the U.S. House of Representatives with 234 […]
Murkowski: It’s About Time
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of State approved the cross-border permit for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. “After more than eight years of unnecessary delay by the Obama administration, this decision will finally allow the Keystone XL pipeline to move forward,” Murkowski said. “The […]