ICYMI: Murkowski keeps up pressure on Jewell over Alaska road (Energy Guardian)
ICYMI: Sen. Lisa Murkowski sent a letter to Interior Secretary Jewell yesterday highlighting the ongoing health and safety concerns of the people of King Cove, Alaska, whose access to a nearby all-weather airport is blocked by a small portion of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Sen. Murkowski in 2009 worked out a land exchange that […]
ICYMI: Seriously… squirrels?
ICYMI: E&E reporter Hannah Northey did a great job covering FERC’s technical conference on the reliability impacts of EPA’s climate regulations, which was held yesterday in Washington, DC. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has repeatedly pressed FERC to take a bigger role in determining the effect of EPA’s rules and regulations on the electric grid. FERC has shown […]
Landlocked: Murkowski Explains Alaskans’ Access Frustrations
Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a video to help broadcast the Alaska #ThisIsOurLand movement’s agenda to a wider national audience. With Alaskans reeling from the Obama administration’s ongoing efforts to block off millions of onshore and offshore acres from energy development, Murkowski produced the two-minute film to speak plainly to Americans who may be […]
Sens. Murkowski, Heinrich Stand Together in Advancing the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., today urged their colleagues to support bipartisan legislation that would greatly improve opportunities for hunters, anglers, and outdoors enthusiasts on federal lands. The Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015 (S. 556) was the subject of a hearing Thursday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “For […]
Sen. Murkowski: Need for King Cove Road Remains Indisputable
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell listing the medevacs carried out from King Cove, Alaska, in the 14 months since Jewell rejected an 11-mile, one-lane, gravel, non-commercial road that would have provided reliable medical transport to the all-weather airport in nearby Cold Bay. […]
Sen. Murkowski Comments on Proposed Withdrawal of Lands in Fortymile Mining District
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, recently submitted comments to the Bureau of Management (BLM) on its proposal to prohibit mining activity on 685,000 acres within Interior Alaska’s 2.1 million-acre Fortymile mining district. BLM’s planned withdrawal is part of its draft “Eastern Interior Resource Management and Environmental Impact Statement.” “After reviewing the 1,267-page document released by BLM, […]
Sen. Murkowski Welcomes New Tongass National Forest Supervisor to Alaska
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on the recent announcement of Earl Stewart to be the new supervisor for the Tongass National Forest. “I look forward to meeting with Mr. Stewart to discuss the importance of the 17-million acre Tongass National Forest to Southeast Alaska’s economy. The Tongass covers nearly all of […]
Senators Urge President Obama to Stop Attacks on Revenue Sharing for Coastal States
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), David Vitter (R-La.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), this week sent a letter to President Obama opposing his proposal to deprive Gulf Coast states of a fair share of the revenue from energy produced off their shores as promised […]
Bipartisan Agreement: Arctic Holds Strategic Value for United States
On a perfectly snowy day in Washington, DC, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., hosted a hearing on the economic and strategic opportunities in the Arctic as the United States prepares to assume the leadership of the international Arctic Council. Click photo to play video […]
Cantwell Urges ‘No’ on Vote to Override President Obama’s Veto of Keystone XL Bill
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell, (D-Wash.) ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement urging her Senate colleagues not to override President Obama’s veto of legislation that would authorize construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. “I urge my colleagues not to override the president’s veto but […]