Chairman's Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today congratulated the U.S. Department of the Interior for its approval of Shell’s oil discharge prevention and contingency plan for Alaska’s Chukchi…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s publication of the final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today asked Energy Secretary Steven Chu if he would be willing to testify at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today made the following opening statement at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the administration’s proposed fiscal year 2013…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today renewed her request to Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hold an oversight hearing on…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, appeared on the energy news program Platts Energy Week on Sunday to discuss the energy agenda President Obama laid out in his…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s approval of a Combined Construction and Operating License for two new nuclear reactors at Southern Co.’s…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today gave the following remarks at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (NARUC) winter meeting: “Good morning and thank you…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ, and the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for passing a portion of her legislation…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, today introduced legislation to ensure the rights of recreational hunters, fishermen and shooters on Bureau of Land…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, and Maria Cantwell, D-WA, on Wednesday introduced legislation that would bar companies who engage in business or trading activity with Iran from…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following opening statement at today’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on President Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission’s report on…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the introduction of bipartisan legislation that would have Congress authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline project under Article 1,…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was honored by the U.S. Coalition for Advanced Diesel Cars as the inaugural Champion for Technology Neutrality. The award recognizes leaders…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced that the U.S. Forest Service is distributing more than $18.1 million to Alaska communities for improvements to public schools, roads…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the release of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future’s final report on managing the nation’s spent nuclear fuel….
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement in response to President Obama’s decision to reject a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline: “Yesterday…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to adopt a single per-acre rate for all federal lands in Alaska. Murkowski…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following response to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement that he was extending the million-acre moratorium on new uranium mining claims…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the Environmental Protection Agency’s release of the final National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal- and Oil-Fired…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ranking members of the Senate Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and Environment and Public Works Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), today joined…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to grant road access to the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) via…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) conditional approval of Shell’s exploration plan for Alaska’s Chukchi…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today unveiled language included in the 2012 Interior spending bill that blocks federal land management agencies from creating new wilderness areas without first…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After months of negotiations, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced language in the 2012 Interior spending bill to return authority over air emissions from offshore activity…