Chairman's Press
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the U.S. Forest Service released its Final Record of…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today sent a letter to President Obama reiterating their strong objections to the use of…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on the status of her broad, bipartisan energy and natural resources bill. “For two years, we have provided a textbook…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft rulemaking that would impose new CERCLA 108(b) financial assurance regulations on…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the committee’s ranking member, today issued a joint statement on the current…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for finalizing a new, revised mitigation policy that will make development more difficult and more expensive…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) this week sent a letter to National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan Jarvis requesting an immediate 60-day extension of the public comment period for Director’s…
Decision Harms Alaska’s Economy, Threatens Affordable Energy U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today condemned the Obama administration’s decision to remove…
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a field hearing on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. HST at the Hawaii State Capitol located at 415…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after Gov. Bill Walker (I-Alaska) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, signaling the State’s nomination of offshore Arctic…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the release of a report she requested from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining the federal government’s approach to identifying, assessing, and facilitating…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week held a legislative hearing to receive testimony on her bill to accelerate a land exchange between the Alaska Mental Health Trust (Trust) and…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today received testimony on 21 measures that are broadly focused on public lands, natural hazards, conservation, and reforms to the monument designation process during a legislative…
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 9:30 a.m. EDT (5:30 a.m. AKDT) in Room 366 of the Dirksen…
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 9:30 a.m. EDT in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building….
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, this week introduced S. 3315, the “Second Division Memorial Modification Act”. The legislation would authorize the modification of the existing Second Division Memorial in Washington,…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday spoke about an amendment she introduced to S. 2848, the Water Resources Development Act, that would facilitate a life-saving road for the isolated community…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the National Park Service’s announcement that it will cancel the current contract solicitation, issue temporary contracts for mountaineering guides in Denali National Park…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened the first meeting of Senate and House conferees to S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016. This meeting marks the first…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the release of the Long-Term Strategic Review of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which was prepared by the Department of Energy for Congress. …
The Senate and House conferees will have a meeting regarding S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016. The purpose of this meeting is to hear opening statements from…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday strongly urged Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Abigail Ross Hopper to preserve all three lease sales proposed for Alaska when it finalizes…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today strongly urged the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to provide Alaskans with sufficient time to review and challenge its “Proposed Regional Management Plan/Final Environmental…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today slammed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for finalizing a new rule that preempts the State of Alaska’s jurisdiction over wildlife management in…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today strongly criticized the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Proposed Regional Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement” (RMP/EIS) for the Eastern Interior Planning Area of Alaska. …