Chair's News - U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

May 2014

Landrieu: Battle to Build Keystone Not Over

The Keystone pipeline and the energy efficiency legislation are two significant steps that should be taken now to enhance our energy security and boost job creation throughout the country.

April 2014

Sempra Clears Environmental Step, Landrieu Presses for Final FERC Approval

Landrieu, Republican Senator Secure Commitment to Keep Constructing MOX Facility

This project sustains thousands of jobs across the country and remains the only way to safely dispose of our weapons grade plutonium stockpile. It is not only critical to our economy, but also to our national security.

Landrieu to Push Vote on Keystone

I will press hard for a vote in the coming weeks to build this pipeline.

Landrieu Blasts Administration for Yet Another Keystone Delay

I plan to use my power as chair of the Senate Energy Committee to take the decisive action to get this pipeline permit approved.

Landrieu Highlights Need to Ensure Security and Reliability of Nation’s Electric Grids

A power outage of even a few minutes can be a terrible inconvenience, it can be a costly occurrence, or it could be a real threat to public health, particularly when temperatures are very high or very low, or in the aftermath of storms, disasters, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, mudslides, fires.

March 2014

Landrieu Reacts to Proposed GOMESA Rule

We need to build upon GOMESA and pass the FAIR Act to accelerate the payments, lift the arbitrary cap and provide all coastal states the same fair deal that interior states have for the energy they produce. I will not stop fighting until Louisiana gets its fair share of revenue, and this injustice ends.

Energy Committee Approves Two Interior Department Nominees

By a vote of 12-10, the committee voted in favor of Rhea Suh to be Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. The committee also voted in favor of Janice M. Schneider, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management by a vote of 18-4.

Landrieu: Natural Gas Exports Will Create Thousands of High-Paying Jobs, Support U.S. Allies

Thanks to extraordinary and swift advances in technology to locate, capture and produce natural gas, today this committee will discuss the expanded opportunities to export LNG, the possibilities to create high-paying jobs in America and support our allies in Europe and budding democracies across the world.

Landrieu Statement on Jordan Cove Natural Gas Permit Approval

A quick and efficient approval process to responsibly export natural gas from our shores will also reduce the stronghold that countries, like Russia, currently exercise over their neighbors.