Chairman's Press
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the National Park Service (NPS) agreed to extend the public comment period on its proposed Wrangell-St. Elias National Park…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced it will issue a Notice of Intent (NOI) to conduct an environmental…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a series of field hearings over the July/August recess. The full committee hearings will examine the impacts of monument designations and…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has introduced new legislation that will significantly increase economic growth and create thousands of new jobs in Alaska while establishing vital revenue sources for the…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, this week introduced identical bills in both chambers of Congress to facilitate a life-saving road…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday held a business meeting to approve a wide array of legislative proposals. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, thanked her committee colleagues for…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today led the Senate’s approval of a motion to proceed to a formal conference with the House of Representatives on S. 2012, her broad, bipartisan…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Department of the Interior released its final regulation for energy development in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)….
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today expressed her disappointment with the National Park Service’s (NPS) decision to select a non-Alaskan as superintendent at Sitka National Historical Park. “I am extremely…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, this week, underscored the criticality of oil and gas production in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to Alaska and the entire nation. In her…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Department of the Interior released its final regulation for valuation and revenue collection from oil, gas and coal…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today received testimony on a bipartisan discussion draft entitled the “Wildfire Budgeting, Response and Forest Management Act”, which would address the serious challenges of wildfire…
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will today release a report, which was required to be completed by a provision of law authored by U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), that…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, delivered the following opening statement at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Public Lands, Forests and Mining Subcommittee hearing held today to conduct oversight on…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced two hearings that will be held in the coming weeks. The Full Committee will receive testimony on the discussion draft of…
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Vital to U.S. West Coast Energy Security U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today examined our nation’s energy infrastructure and highlighted the important role that oil and gas…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday sent a letter to Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), calling on the agency to withdraw its proposed policy…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) summarizing historical increases in the federal gasoline excise tax rate, currently set at 18.4…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced three hearings that will be held over the next two weeks. The full committee will examine the economic, safety, environmental, permitting,…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, in an effort to ensure that the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act continues to serve Alaska, introduced S. 3004, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, in an effort to help the ailing timber in Southeast, introduced S. 3006, the Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Exchange Act, which would accelerate a…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced several new and recent additions to her Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee staff. The new hires are Nicole Daigle as Communications Director,…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, held a field hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Kenai to examine the challenges and impacts of federal regulations and wildfire…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell asking for more information surrounding mistakes reportedly made by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today introduced three targeted pieces of legislation that would improve the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANSCA), assist the Alaska Mental Health Trust, and reconstitute…