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12.09.16

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…

12.08.16

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…

12.07.16

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…

12.02.16

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…

11.25.16

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…

11.23.16

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…

11.18.16

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…

11.18.16

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…

10.14.16

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…

10.07.16

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…

10.03.16

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…

09.26.16

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…

09.22.16

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…

09.22.16

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…

09.19.16

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….

09.15.16

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,…

09.14.16

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…

09.14.16

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…

09.08.16

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…

09.07.16

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. …

09.02.16

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…

08.13.16

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…

08.10.16

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…

08.04.16

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…

07.29.16

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. …