Chairman's Press
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today reported out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee legislation honoring former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond. The bill now goes to the Senate…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals en banc ruling reversing an earlier decision exempting the Tongass National Forest from…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today convened the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to continue consideration of the bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 with discussion on 20…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today furthered her efforts to end the current ban on U.S. crude oil exports by releasing a report on the potential benefits to the Great…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today began the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s markup of the broad, bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 with discussion on almost a…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today testified before the Senate Banking Committee on the benefits of lifting the current ban on domestic crude oil exports. Today’s hearing before the banking…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today reiterated her opposition to selling off 101 million barrels of oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to pay for unrelated legislative proposals…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today unveiled the broad, bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. Focused on a wide range of energy-related opportunities and…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following response to the Interior Department’s approval of two conditional permits to Shell to resume its exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea:…
After months of listening sessions, hearings, and negotiations, U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today formally introduced their broad, bipartisan energy bill. Focused on a wide range…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement in opposition to a proposal to sell off 101 million barrels of oil from the nation’s emergency energy stockpiles to…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, toured the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) site near Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Friday for a firsthand look at the reserve’s operational readiness and challenges given…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today underscored the importance of promoting fuel diversification and greater efficiency at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing she convened on the unique…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Richard Burr, R-N.C., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, today sent a letter to the…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced its updated hearing schedule over the coming weeks in part on islanded energy systems in Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Territories…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced its next five hearings during the coming weeks on water management in the Yakima River Basin; mitigation requirements for economic development…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the United States Supreme Court decision on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) failure to consider the costs of compliance when making rules for…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the announcement that Alaska municipalities will receive $26.2 million from the Department of the Interior as compensation for federal lands within their jurisdictions….
In the final video introducing the Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska., calls for an upgrade to our nation’s energy policies…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today advanced her efforts to lift the current ban on most U.S. crude oil exports by releasing a report making the case that sanctions on…
In the eleventh in the series of videos introducing the Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., today shares his vision for…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned President Obama’s nominees for the Department of Energy (DOE) on the department’s plans to increase American energy exports and expand opportunities for energy…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell urging her to reverse her devastating rejection of a life-saving road for the remote community of…
In the latest in the series of videos introducing the Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., underscores his commitment to restoring…
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks today received testimony on two bills authored and introduced by Senator Lisa Murkowski, chairman of the full committee. The first,…