Chairman's Press
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the following statement following the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to approve the application for a permit to drill (APD) for the Greater…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened a meeting with Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, and investor, to discuss the importance of energy innovation. The two were joined by…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker asking whether any oil exchanges with Mexico have actually been approved, months after the Administration…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine Puerto Rico’s financial crisis. The committee received testimony on actions that could be taken…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to consider six nominees for the Department of Energy and Department of the Interior. Murkowski used…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Department of the Interior announced its rejection of Shell Alaska’s request to extend its leases off of Alaska’s…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., applauded action today taken by the U.S. House of Representatives to approve legislation that would lift the current ban on U.S….
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, convened the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine legislative proposals to mitigate the impacts of the drought that has crippled California and many…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement in response to the Statement of Administration Policy on H.R. 702 issued yesterday by the White House. “It is unfortunate…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today underscored the importance of maintaining the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) at a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The hearing…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced its next seven hearings during the coming weeks on the importance of modernizing our nation’s energy infrastructure, bipartisan legislation to maintain…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement regarding Shell’s decision to suspend operations in Alaska’s offshore waters: “I am extremely disappointed by this decision, just as I…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted language included in the short-term bill to fund the federal government that ensures local communities receive payments in full from the Payments Lieu…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today pressed officials from multiple federal land management agencies on rising user fees that threaten to make our nation’s public lands, including Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier,…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has introduced legislation that would give the Alaska Bible College the ability to sell land given to it in Glennallen by the federal government in 1959…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate that would settle the long-standing lands claims of the Alaska Native residents of Alexander Creek, Alaska. The…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today welcomed the latest Obama administration report showing that lifting the outdated ban on oil exports…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following statement after the White House announced it will clarify that state energy financing institutions are eligible for the Department of Energy’s loan…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to cut methane emissions from U.S. oil and natural gas production by almost…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today hosted a joint Senate oversight hearing in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley to examine the effects of the federal government’s regulatory practices,…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on the Interior Department’s final approval of Shell’s drilling program in the Chukchi Sea this summer. “Today’s announcement is welcome…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded news that the U.S. Commerce Department has approved limited exchanges of crude oil between the United States and Mexico. “I welcome this decision,…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the National Park Service’s (NPS) decision to sign a new concessions contract in the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve that will keep…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today thanked her colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for supporting her broad, bipartisan energy legislation and a separate measure she introduced…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today thanked her committee colleagues for their hard work and support of the broad, bipartisan energy…