Chairman's Press
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, sent a letter to Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), pushing back against a rule proposed by the agency that…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today announced six upcoming hearings that will be held by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The full committee will conduct…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, held a field hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Fairbanks to examine opportunities to create jobs and strengthen national security by…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized the Department of the Interior for wasting more than $100,000 on a study of “non-road alternatives” that will not adequately provide emergency medical…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that communities across Alaska will receive $11,540,639 to fund school and local budgets across the state. The funds come through the Secure Rural Schools…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a field hearing on Monday, March 28 to examine opportunities to create jobs…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, criticized today’s announcement by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management that it will seek to impose additional retroactive requirements that will…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement in response to the Department of the Interior’s 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Program. “The administration’s…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned the Obama administration on the purpose and effects of President Obama’s memorandum, entitled Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources from Development and Encouraging Related…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced three hearings over the next three weeks. The full committee will examine the President’s recent memorandum on mitigation and the effects…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned Chief Tom Tidwell of the U.S. Forest Service (Service) on the priorities in the agency’s $4.9 billion FY 2017 budget request. At Tuesday’s…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) announcement that it will distribute over $47.5 million to the state of Alaska to promote access…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the following statement after Apache Corp. announced the closure of its Alaska operations. “This announcement reflects the current state of the oil and gas…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today identified opportunities in the Department of Energy’s $32.5 billion FY 2017 budget request to work with the agency to promote energy innovation, but cautioned…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a new analysis by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Obama administration’s proposed tax on oil. The report outlines a list of…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, welcomed an up to $1.54 million grant that the Department of Energy awarded to promote the development of a marine hydrokinetic project in Igiugig, Alaska….
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today underscored the need to update our nation’s energy policies in order for the United States to compete in the global energy marketplace. In her…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the following statement after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced that it would extend the comment period on a proposed rule on…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, led 18 of her colleagues on a letter to President Obama raising concerns about the impacts of a Presidential Memorandum he issued late last year…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today pressed Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on her department’s $13.4 billion budget request, noting that it would further restrict resource production in federal…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a new analysis by the Congressional Research Service of the administration’s revised proposed tax on oil, demonstrating that the slight increase in the…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded 64 rural communities for being recognized as “Community Efficiency Champions” by the Department of Energy’s Remote Alaska Communities Energy Efficiency Competition (RACEE Competition)….
Bethel, AK – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, held a field hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Bethel to examine the advancements that rural Alaska is…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized the Obama administration’s latest action to unilaterally designate three new national monuments in California’s Mojave Desert. The new monuments, encompassing almost 2 million…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, will host a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee field hearing on Monday, February 15, 2016 in Bethel, Alaska. The hearing will examine opportunities for…