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09.24.04

Washington, D.C. – The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold one subcommittee hearing and one full committee hearing next week. In addition, the Committee may hold a business…

09.23.04

Washington, D.C. –Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today expressed support for the Department of Energy’s announced plan to negotiate the short-term loan of oil from the…

09.20.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today renewed his call for production incentives to expand availability of clean, affordable nuclear energy for U.S. Consumers….

09.17.04

Washington, D.C. – The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold one full committee hearing and one subcommittee hearing next week. The full committee will hold a nomination hearing…

09.15.04

Washington, D.C. – The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved 21 bills in a 9:30 a.m. business meeting. The 21 bills were approved by unanimous consent with the…

09.15.04

Washington, D.C. – The Senate today passed, by unanimous consent, 44 Energy Committee bills. The bills were filed earlier this year in substantially the same form and cleared by the…

09.15.04

Washington, D.C. – The United States Senate this afternoon passed by unanimous consent nine bills sponsored or cosponsored by Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici. Eight of…

07.21.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today expressed grave concern over the loss of 4.5 million acres to wild fire at this point in…

07.21.04

Washington, D.C. – Crude oil continues to trade above $40 today, continuing the two-week streak of increasingly high oil prices. Retail gasoline prices continue to climb and are now up…

07.19.04

Washington, D.C. – Crude oil traded at $41 a barrel for most of the day today. Prices have exceeded $40 a barrel nearly every day during the last eight days…

07.16.04

Washington, D.C. – The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold one full committee hearing and two subcommittee hearings this week. The full committee will hold a hearing on…

07.14.04

Washington, D.C. – The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved sixteen bills in an 11:30 a.m. business meeting: S. 203, S. 931, S. 1211, S. 2052, S. 2140,…

07.14.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici led a bipartisan group of senators and two House members today in introducing legislation to create a federal…

07.12.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today congratulated the Forest Service on plans to issue a new roadless rule this week that allows governors…

07.12.04

Washington, D.C. – The price of crude oil today traded over $40 for the third trading day in a row. The continued high price for oil futures foretells higher pump…

07.09.04

Washington, D.C. – the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold one full committee hearing, two subcommittee hearings and one business meeting this week. The full committee will hold…

07.09.04

Washington, D.C. – The price of crude oil traded above $40 for the second consecutive day while energy forecasters predicted another year of high natural gas prices. Meanwhile, in some…

07.08.04

Washington, D.C. – The price of crude oil closed today at $40.33 a barrel in the wake of the government’s warning of the heightened threat of terror. Senate Energy &…

07.08.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici and National Parks Subcommittee Chairman Craig Thomas today congratulated President George W. Bush for his sustained investment in…

06.23.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete Domenici today urged the Forest Service to commit more resources to processing its vast backlog of grazing permits renewals. During…

06.18.04

Washington, D.C. – the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold three subcommittee hearings this week. The energy subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 22 at 2:30…

06.16.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today expressed grave concern over Iraq’s announcement today that it will temporarily halt exports of 1.6 million barrels…

06.16.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today test drove the 2005 Ford Escape – a nearly emission-free hybrid SUV that runs on gasoline and…

06.16.04

Washington, D.C. – The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved eighteen bills and a nomination in an 11:30 a.m. business meeting: S. 155, S. 180, S. 211, S….

06.15.04

Washington, D.C. – Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today reiterated the need to pass the energy bill in the light of testimony from a panel of…