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The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Monday urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to use the committee’s proposed oil and natural drilling reforms as the basis for his narrower energy bill that is expected to be taken up this week.

Natural gas will be a leader in reducing U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next several decades, mostly by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with combined-cycle gas generation, according to a comprehensive study issued Friday by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study group.

Natural gas will be a leader in reducing U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next several decades, mostly by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with combined-cycle gas generation, according to a comprehensive study issued Friday by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study group.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has fired off letters to the chairmen of key committees requesting that they make recommendations or report legislation before the Fourth of July recess that would address the “unfolding disaster in the Gulf of Mexico [GOM].”

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky Tuesday pledged to help President Obama achieve the job-creation goal that he laid out in his State of the Union address with respect to energy and international trade.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky Tuesday pledged to help President Obama achieve the job-creation goal that he laid out in his State of the Union address with respect to energy and international trade.

Floor debate on the energy and climate change legislation will begin in the Senate “sometime in the spring,” according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

Floor debate on the energy and climate change legislation will begin in the Senate “sometime in the spring,” according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

The prospects for passing comprehensive climate change legislation this year appeared to dim last Tuesday after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R-NV) suggested in comments that some of the work before Congress may be put on hold until 2010.