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03.24.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed the Department of Energy (DOE) approval of a conditional license for Jordan Cove Energy Project to export liquefied natural gas…

03.14.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following comment on the state of Alaska’s decision to challenge in court the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s rejection…

03.13.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following statement in response to the leak of internal Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) information on potential vulnerabilities of…

03.11.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor reminding her colleagues of the broad economic and geopolitical benefits of America’s energy renaissance,…

03.03.14

HOUSTON, TEXAS – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today presented a road map for lifting the prohibition against exporting American crude oil. Murkowski, in her keynote address to national and…

03.03.14

HOUSTON, TEXAS – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released a report detailing the history of past executive actions lifting restrictions on crude oil exports. The report contains 40 pages…

02.28.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today prohibited the consideration of any future permit application to develop a…

02.27.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following statement on the environmental review for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s geological and geophysical review of survey…

02.20.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) last week warned attendees at the annual winter meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) that the reliability of…

02.18.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today once again called on Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to address the life-threatening situation in King Cove, Alaska created by Jewell’s refusal…

02.12.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today announced she will vote against President Obama’s nominee to oversee the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service if…

02.12.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) yesterday sent a letter calling on Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to uphold the promises and commitments she made more than…

02.11.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commended Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz for working through the backlog of applications to export liquefied natural gas to countries without…

02.11.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today warned that the reliability of the nation’s electric grid could suffer unless federal policymakers pay greater attention to the impacts of…

02.06.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today pressed Obama administration officials to more actively manage the nation’s public forests to ensure both healthy ecosystems and economies in rural…

02.04.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today firmly pressed the nominee for Assistant Secretary for Fish Wildlife and Parks, Rhea Suh on the Interior Department’s disregard for the…

02.04.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today secured a commitment from the nominee for Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, Janice Schneider, to improve the Interior Department’s…

02.04.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today sent a letter to President Obama calling on him to reconsider Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s rejection of a land exchange in…

02.04.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) welcomed a recent announcement by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that, because of increased funding secured with Murkowski’s help, it would…

02.04.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today pressed Rhea Suh, nominated to be the next assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks at the Interior Department, on the…

01.31.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commented on the Obama administration’s release of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) on the Keystone XL Pipeline, which can be…

01.30.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) this week introduced bipartisan legislation recognizing the important connection between energy and water. Vast amounts of water are…

01.30.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today reiterated her call for the Obama administration to end the prohibition against exporting crude oil produced in the United States to…

01.30.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement on Shell’s announcement that it is canceling plans to drill for oil in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea this…

01.28.14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today called for a bipartisan and comprehensive approach to rebuild the nation’s critical minerals supply chain to prevent…