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02.11.25

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Martin Heinrich (D- N.M.), Ranking Member, announced the subcommittee assignments for the…

02.07.25

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Senator John Curtis (R-Utah) joined Representatives Mike Kennedy (R-Utah-03), Burgess Owens (R-Utah-04),…

02.03.25

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, issued the following statement after the Senate’s bipartisan vote to confirm…

01.30.25

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, issued the following statement after the Senate’s bipartisan vote to confirm…

01.24.25

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Senator John Curtis (R-Utah), introduced the Ending Presidential Overreach on…

12.23.24

Report details IEA’s flawed modeling and calls on agency to focus on energy security WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and…

12.20.24

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR), issued the following statement after the Biden-Harris administration released its record of decision…

12.20.24

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR), applauded the Senate’s unanimous passage of S. 1348, the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative…

12.19.24

Senate passes first of its kind legislation to promote outdoor recreation   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and…

12.18.24

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement on the Inspector General’s interim findings on conflicts…

12.18.24

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR), and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of ENR, issued the following statements on…

12.11.24

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ranking member John Barrasso (R-WY) commented on the final Buffalo Resource Management Plan released by the Bureau of Land Management….

11.19.24

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Advances Legislation Important to the West  Click here to watch Senator Barrasso’s remarks. WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of…

11.16.24

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement on the nomination of Chris…

11.15.24

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement on the nomination of Governor…

10.23.24

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s…

09.24.24

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released a statement in advance of the Department of the Interior’s…

09.19.24

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), and Senators King and Daines, chairman and ranking member of the…

09.19.24

Click here to watch Senator Barrasso’s opening remarks. WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the…

09.13.24

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), applauded a federal district court’s preliminary injunction on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM)…

09.12.24

“We can’t let our research and technology fall into the hands of China’s brutal dictatorship. The Department must dramatically increase its efforts to protect our research from our adversaries.” Click…

09.05.24

WASHINGTON, DC— On September 4, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) ranking member John Barrasso (R-WY) led an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the scope…

08.22.24

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement in response to the Bureau of Land…

08.12.24

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland regarding…

08.08.24

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A broad group of industry and issue experts have voiced support for S. 4753, the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senator John…