Sen. Murkowski Welcomes National Park Service Decision to Renew Glacier Bay Concessions Contract
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the National Park Service’s (NPS) decision to sign a new concessions contract in the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve that will keep a local lodge and accompanying glacier boat tour service in operation. “The Glacier Bay Lodge and the tour boat operation at Glacier Bay National Park […]
Cantwell Supports the Clean Power Plan, Taking Action to Curb Carbon Pollution
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued her support of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. “After years of talk and no action, this rule requires real action. It will put us on a realistic pathway to reducing carbon pollution,” Sen. Cantwell said. […]
Murkowski Advances Legislation Critical to Alaska’s Future
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today thanked her colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for supporting her broad, bipartisan energy legislation and a separate measure she introduced to grant Alaska and other coastal states a share of the revenue from offshore oil and gas activity. Click here for video of business meeting. […]
Murkowski Leads Committee Approval of Measures to Modernize Energy Policy, Lift Oil Export Ban, Provide Revenue Sharing
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today thanked her committee colleagues for their hard work and support of the broad, bipartisan energy legislation that she compiled with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the panel’s ranking member. The committee approved 15 measures over the three-day markup. In addition to […]
Bipartisan Bill Permanently Reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund, Increases Energy Efficiency, Modernizes Energy Infrastructure
Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, advanced bipartisan energy legislation along with Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in an 18-4 vote in committee. The committee held bipartisan listening sessions starting in the beginning of the Congress, a series of legislative hearings on 114 bills and three business meetings to amend and vote on the final product, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015. Senators Cantwell and Murkowski met frequently over breakfast over the last several months to discuss legislative priorities and progress on the bill.
Energy Panel Advances Legislation Honoring Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today reported out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee legislation honoring former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond. The bill now goes to the Senate floor for consideration by the full Senate. The Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Act, S. 873, introduced by Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, would name […]
Murkowski Responds to Tongass Roadless Ruling
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals en banc ruling reversing an earlier decision exempting the Tongass National Forest from the national inventoried roadless rule. The ruling means the roadless rule will continue to restrict access to 9.5 million acres of the Tongass – an […]
Senate Energy Committee Continues Consideration of Broad Bipartisan Energy Bill
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to continue consideration of the bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 with discussion on 20 additional amendments to the bill. In total, the committee has worked through 45 of the 94 amendments filed to the bipartisan legislation since the markup […]
Sen. Murkowski: Crude Oil Exports Would Benefit Great Lakes Region
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today furthered her efforts to end the current ban on U.S. crude oil exports by releasing a report on the potential benefits to the Great Lakes region if the United States allowed domestic crude oil exports. The report is the first in a series entitled In the National Interest: U.S. […]
ICYMI: Three USCG medevacs in one week emphasize need for King Cove road
ICYMI: It’s been one of those weeks in King Cove, Alaska. The U.S. Coast Guard performed three emergency medical evacuations over the past seven days – two of which happened on the same day – in the small, isolated fishing community on the Alaska Peninsula. A total of 31 medevacs have now been carried out since […]