Senate

As the Senate prepares to vote on a comprehensive energy reform bill as early as this week, a number of Senate Democrats are pushing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expand its proposed oil and gas methane emissions limits.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) hinted during a hearing this week that the comprehensive energy bill passed last summer through the Committee on Energy & Natural Resources could soon reach the Senate floor for a vote.

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives, along mostly partisan lines, joined their Senate colleagues on Wednesday in passing a resolution disapproving of the Obama administration’s plan to rewrite the controversial Clean Water Rule (CWR).

In a symbolic move, the Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday evening passed a pair of joint resolutions aimed at derailing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP), but both measures are expected to be vetoed.

One day after Republicans in the U.S. Senate failed to muster enough votes to force the Obama administration to rewrite the controversial Clean Water Rule (CWR), lawmakers on Wednesday passed a joint resolution to block the rule from taking effect.

The Ohio Senate has opted to craft its own state budget rather than work from a version passed by the state House of Representatives last month or borrow from Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget, which called for a 6.5% severance tax on oil and natural gas production.

The Ohio Senate has opted to craft its own state budget rather than work from a version passed by the state House of Representatives last month or borrow from Gov. John Kasich's proposed budget, which called for a 6.5% severance tax on oil and natural gas production.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced 17 energy bills — including measures to reauthorize the extraction of natural gas from methane hydrates, standardize the federal definition of condensate, and add de novo review to the Natural Gas Act — ahead of hearings and a rollout of a comprehensive energy bill from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this summer.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced 17 energy bills — including measures to reauthorize the extraction of natural gas from methane hydrates, standardize the federal definition of condensate, and add de novo review to the Natural Gas Act — ahead of hearings and a rollout of a comprehensive energy bill from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this summer.