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President Obama's Energy Security Trust would dedicate oil and gas revenues to fund energy R&D. It's a great idea. How serious is he about making it a reality?[read more]

The Senate Nuclear Power 2021 Act promotes design standards Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Mark Udall (D-CO) introduced legislation to direct the Department of Energy to develop innovative, low-cost nuclear reactors.  The Nuclear Power 2021 Act (S. 512) proposes a program to design and certify small modular...[read more]

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has decided to hold the fate of her state, nation, and world hostage to drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as explained by guest blogger Daniel J. Weiss, CAPAF’s Director of Climate Strategy. Murkowski gave a long impassioned speech when she introduced her “Dirty Air Act” – a Congressional Review...[read more]

by Becky Striepe Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski recently wrote a disapproval resolution to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. I sent a letter to my Senator urging him to support a new Clean Air Act that regulates greenhouse gas emissions, and you can contact yours, too, until the end of this month. Georgia Senator...[read more]

One of the Senate’s most vocal critics of U.S. EPA’s climate rules is also Congress’ top recipient of campaign funds from the electric utility industry. Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski, who was elected to Senate GOP leadership last year and holds a key post on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, received more campaign...[read more]

I keep telling everyone that it’s coming — see “Memo to swing Senators: You are going to vote on a bipartisan, economy-wide climate and clean energy jobs bill this spring. Get over it.” But if folks don’t believe every word and action from the President (see “Coming to Copenhagen commits Obama to getting the bipartisan climate and clean...[read more]

According to an October 22nd  story in Environment & Energy Daily (“Climate:  GOP Fence Sitters Voice Concerns Over Allocations” by Darren Samuelson), several key swing-vote Senate Republicans — including Senator Lisa Murkowski, ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee — are voicing skepticism about the...[read more]

Okay, it may not exactly be a stampede of elephants crossing over, but there is real movement by key swing Senators, as E&E Daily makes clear in an excellent new analysis, “On road to 60, Senate swells with fence sitters,” (subs. req’d).  They count 31 “yes” votes, 11 “probably yes,” and 24 senators now belong in the “fence...[read more]

The climate train is leaving the station.  It is becoming increasingly likely Congress will pass a comprehensive energy bill that includes a shrinking cap and a rising carbon price (with a price collar).   Key swing Senators are moving away from obstructionism toward a bipartisan deal.  Those who stand on the...[read more]

Let’s credit Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for raising questions in the National Journal about the viability of cap-and-trade versus other approaches for the United States to employ in addressing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions linked with global climate change.  Senator Murkowski says that only one approach –...[read more]

Ranking republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is just one of the many members of Congress addressing students and citizens as part of Focus the Nation's nationwide town halls on clean energy solutions, coming up April 18th, 2009. On April 18th, what will you be doing to focus...[read more]