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06.24.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today called for a vote on bipartisan legislation to approve the Keystone…

06.20.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today thanked her colleagues in the Senate for unanimously agreeing to pass legislation to improve and extend programs in U.S.-affiliated islands, the…

06.19.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today encouraged the Obama administration to expedite its process for approving liquefied natural gas (LNG) export licenses to take advantage of the…

06.18.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today voted against appointing Norman Bay to be the next chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Murkowski said Bay lacks…

06.18.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, R-Nev., to quickly bring to the floor legislation passed by the Senate Energy and Natural…

06.17.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced Alaska municipalities will receive $28.5 million from the Department of the Interior in compensation for federal lands within their jurisdictions….

06.05.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today said the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unilateral effort to bypass Congress and impose climate regulations on the economy threatens the reliability…

06.04.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to move ahead with its consideration of Dominion’s application for a license to export…

06.02.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants as harmful to the U.S….

05.30.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed the publication of the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) forecast of U.S. oil production quality. The release of the EIA report…

05.29.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following statement on the Department of Energy’s proposal…

05.29.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed the release of a new study detailing the potential benefits to the U.S. economy of lifting the federal government’s 1970s-era…

05.23.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed the Interior Department’s proposed schedule for revising its environmental review of drilling leases in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea to resolve challenges…

05.22.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commended the efforts of Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming) and Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) to advance legislation that would seek to avoid…

05.22.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released a report demonstrating that petroleum exchanges between the United States and nearby nations could be approved immediately. Such transactions would…

05.21.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned President Obama’s decision to use the Antiquities Act to lock up nearly 500,000 acres of public land in New Mexico…

05.20.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today raised concerns with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) nominee Norman Bay about the lack of transparency and due process at the…

05.13.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed the National Park Service’s decision to develop regulations recognizing the rights of subsistence users to collect wild berries, birch bark,…

05.13.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement on Sen. Harry Reid’s refusal Monday to block bipartisan debate on energy efficiency legislation and disallow relevant…

05.09.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision exempting the wood bison from the Endangered Species Act in Alaska. The decision…

05.06.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today called on the federal government to partner with the private sector and academia to support research to improve the efficient use…

05.01.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) delivered the following opening statement today at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing looking at the contributing factors of last…

04.28.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Hydropower Association (NHA) today honored U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) with its Legislator of the Year award for her support of hydroelectric power. In announcing…

04.25.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commended the U.S. Forest Service for administratively enacting language to limit fees on subsistence cabins in the Tongass National Forest that…

04.18.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today issued the following response to the U.S. State Department’s decision to indefinitely delay the process for approving the Keystone XL pipeline…