Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Recent News About Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
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Manchin Announces $3.8 Million in PILT Payments to 36 West Virginia Counties
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced $3,868,229 from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program to 36 West Virginia counties. These payments are made annually to help defray the costs associated with maintaining important community services.
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Manchin: Mountain Valley Pipeline’s Final Permit is Great News for West Virginia and the Entire Nation
On June 23, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the below statement following the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ issuance of a Department of the Army water crossing permit authorizing the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
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Manchin Announces $3 Million for West Virginia University Research Corporation Project to Help Decarbonize Food and Beverage Industry
On June 15, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced $3 million through the U.S. Department of Energy to fund a project at West Virginia University (WVU) Research Corporation that will focus on developing an innovative fuel-flexible boiler capable of using fuels like hydrogen and natural gas to help decarbonize the food and beverage industry.
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Manchin, Bipartisan Colleagues Introduce Save Our Gas Stoves Act in Senate
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and seven colleagues have introduced legislation to prohibit the Biden administration from banning gas stoves.
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Manchin, Risch Introduce Bipartisan Civil Nuclear Export Act of 2023
On June 13, Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the Civil Nuclear Export Act of 2023 (CNEA).
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Manchin Evaluates Reforms to Federal Land Management and Wildland Firefighter Recruitment and Retention
On June 8, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearin
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ICYMI: Manchin Secures MVP in Debt Ceiling Agreement
On May 28, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on his securement of the Mountain Valley Pipeline into the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.
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Manchin Joins Groundbreaking of Form Energy Factory in Weirton, WV, Made Possible by Inflation Reduction Act
On May 26, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, joined Form Energy Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mateo Jaramillo, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, West Virginia Economic Development Secretary Mitch Carmichael and other Form Energy and West Virginia leaders at the groundbreaking for Form Energy’s new iron-air battery manufacturing plant in Weirton, West Virginia.
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Wyoming’s Kelly Norris Testifies in Senate on Wildfire Risk
On June 8, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), welcomed Ms. Kelly Norris, Wyoming Interim State Forester, to the committee. Ms. Norris testified at a legislative hearing to examine the federal response to escalating wildfires and to evaluate reforms to land management and wildland firefighter recruitment and retention.
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Manchin Announces $1M from Program Established by Great American Outdoors Act for Deferred Maintenance Projects at Monongahela National Forest
On June 8, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service is investing $1,092,000 from the National Parks and Public Legacy Restoration Fund (NPPLRF) to address three deferred maintenance projects in West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest.
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Barrasso: Workforce and Forest Management are Key Wildfire Priorities
On June 8, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered remarks at a hearing to examine the federal response to escalating wildfires and to evaluate reforms to land management and wildland firefighter recruitment and retention.
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Manchin: Record Onshore Oil and Gas Lease Sale Prompted by Inflation Reduction Act
On June 6, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the below statement following last month’s onshore oil and gas lease sale held by the U.S. Department of the Interior that brought in $78,844,369 on 37 parcels — the highest earning onshore lease sale since 2019.
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ICYMI — Manchin: This EPA Won’t Let Electric Reliability Inconvenience Their Anti-Fossil Agenda.
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the reliability and resiliency of electric services in the United States in light of recent assessments and alerts.
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ICYMI: Manchin Announces $429K Grant for Jefferson County’s Shepherdstown Battlefield
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has awarded the Jefferson County Farmland Protection Board $429,097 to preserve 149.6 acres at Shepherdstown Battlefield in Jefferson County, West Virginia, through the Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants program.
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ICYMI: Manchin Leads Bipartisan Effort to Protect Domestic Electric Power Supply Chain
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led 47 bipartisan Senators in urging Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm to refrain from finalizing a DOE efficiency standard that would worsen the current shortage of distribution transformers, which are critical grid products.
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Manchin Announces $140 Million From Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for West Virginia to Address, Reclaim Abandoned Mine Lands
On June 1, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that West Virginia will receive $140,684,000 in Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) to reclaim abandoned mine lands (AML).
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Manchin Announces Tokamak Energy Inc. Chosen to Help Advance the Development of Fusion Energy
On June 1, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that Tokamak Energy Inc., with operations in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as one of eight companies nationwide to advance designs and research and development for fusion power plants.
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Barrasso Presses DOE on Major Market Impact of Misleading Award Announcements
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm regarding the company Microvast and the award process for DOE grants.
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Wyoming’s Paul Ulrich Testifies Before the Senate on Federal Permitting Reform
On May 11, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), welcomed Mr. Paul Ulrich, Vice President, Jonah Energy and Member, Wyoming Energy Authority Board of Directors, to the committee.
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Barrasso: Reduce Energy Dependence on China & Russia
“We can pass bipartisan legislation that unleashes American energy and mineral production, creates good paying jobs, lowers consumer prices, and boosts our national security."