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U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calling on Secretary Yellen to release guidance that ensures Section 45W Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicle Credits (45W) — included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — are intended only for commercial use.
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Manchin, Committee Examine the Department of the Interior’s Implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) implementation of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, discussed the substantial funding and new authorizations provided to the DOI in the IIJA, and built upon with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), to boost energy production, onshore critical minerals supply chains, clean up legacy pollution in fossil fuel communities, enhance our energy security, and more.
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Manchin, Bipartisan Colleagues Urge Interior Secretary to Withdraw Guidance That Would Impede Energy Infrastructure Projects
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Rob Portman (R-OH), Angus King (I-ME), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Steve Daines (R-MT) sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of the Interior Debra Haaland urging the withdrawal of recent draft guidance proposed by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).
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Manchin: There Has Never Been a More Critical Time for Congress to Protect American Energy Security and Reclaim Energy Independence
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement urging his Senate colleagues to support the inclusion of bipartisan, comprehensive permitting reform as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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Barrasso Presses DOE for Details on Taxpayer Dollars Being Sent to China-connected Companies
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 loans and grants to China-connected companies.
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Barrasso Responds to TerraPower Announcement
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement in response to TerraPower’s announcement that it plans to delay its Natrium reactor project in Wyoming due to lack of American nuclear fuel.
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Barrasso: The Biden Administration Must Stop Blocking Access to America’s Oil & Natural Gas Resources
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the Department of the Interior’s implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act..
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Public comment period on draft Compatibility Determination
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has prepared a draft compatibility determination for the non-commercial collecting of of plant and animal products by the Fallon Paiute Shosone Tribe for cultural purposes.
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Eagles Across America
Half a century ago, the bald eagle was in danger of extinction. Habitat loss, illegal shooting and food source contamination (largely via the pesticide DDT) decimated the bald eagle population.
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SNAP Team Out in Force at Aviation Nation
Representatives of the Southern Nevada Agency Partnership (SNAP) set up shop at Nellis Air Force Base on November 4-6, 2022, during the annual Aviation Nation spectacle on the base.
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Nearly 1,000 acres of Fones Cliffs to be returned to the Rappahannock Tribe
On December 8, The Conservation Fund purchased 964 acres of Fones Cliffs, along the Rappahannock River, with intentions of returning it to the Rappahannock Tribe. Once re-acquired, this land, originally the Tribal village of Wecuppom, will more than double the Tribe’s holdings.
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