senate energy and natural resources committee
Citizen Groups Object to Obama’s Mining Pick
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to approve the nomination of Joseph Pizarchik to head the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement on Tuesday, but coal-field activist groups from his home state of Pennsylvania are rallying against him in hopes of preventing his confirmation.
Pizarchik is currently the director of the [...]
Some Holes in the Dems’ Energy Bill
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday approved an energy bill designed to straddle the partisan chasm between Democrats intent on tackling global warming and Republicans pushing to open more coastal waters to petroleum drilling.
The resulting measure requires electric utilities to generate 15 percent of their power with renewable sources by 2021, aims to [...]
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