Energy | Pearce for Congress

A Comprehensive Energy Strategy for our Future

BY Administrator, ON NOVEMBER 09, 2009

The cap-and-trade legislation being pushed through Congress is as disaster. Lobbyists pick favorites in the energy sector and reward their pals. Meanwhile radical interests work to implement their ideas that will punish New Mexico with lost jobs and higher electrical bills, without even curbing our dependence on foreign oil. Steve Pearce will encourage a broad approach that creates jobs and lowers the cost of energy for families and business. We should increase the supply of domestic gas and oil, while also developing greener sources of energy like wind, solar and nuclear power. We can protect our environment and reduce our dependence on foreign oil only if only we just start harnessing all our sources of energy.

Barrasso Defends Wyoming’s Ability to Effectively Regulate Oil and Gas Development

BY Editor, ON DECEMBER 08, 2010

Dec. 7, 2010

Senator John Barrasso's Office

Barrasso Defends Wyoming’s Ability to Effectively Regulate Oil and Gas Development

Demands Details Regarding Washington Effort to Over-Regulate Hydraulic Fracturing

Statement of Governor Bob McDonnell on Obama Administration Decision to Block Offshore Energy Development Efforts in Virginia

BY Editor, ON DECEMBER 02, 2010

Dec. 1, 2010--Gov. Bob McDonnell

RICHMOND- Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell issued the following statement this afternoon regarding today's announcement by the Obama Administration that no exploration and development of offshore oil and natural gas resources off the coast of Virginia will be allowed to move forward for at least the next seven years. The Obama Administration further blocked any exploration and development of offshore oil and natural gas resources in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, and off the entire Atlantic and Pacific coasts during that same period.

Reid To Scrap Test Vote on Natural Gas Bill, Sees Chance To Move Later This Year

BY Editor, ON NOVEMBER 16, 2010

By: Ben Geman

November 16, 2010--The Hill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is backing off plans to hold a test vote on natural gas legislation because “positive” talks with Republicans suggest the prospect of a bipartisan deal to advance the measure later this year, a Reid aide said Wednesday.

“There have been some positive discussions with Republicans about moving forward on the natural gas and electric vehicles legislation. Sen. Reid has talked to Sen. Hatch and others and thinks that vitiating the cloture vote at this point would increase the chances that we’ll be able to get a bipartisan agreement to pass this important legislation before the end of the year,” the aide said of Reid’s talks with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and others.

A cloture vote had been scheduled on Reid’s legislation, which contains tax incentives and other programs to spur deployment of natural gas-powered and electric vehicles.

But Reid was not expected to get the 60 votes needed for cloture, or ending debate, on the measure, which raises revenues by increasing a per-barrel fee on oil companies.

Congressional Staffers Gain From Trading in Stocks

BY Editor, ON OCTOBER 11, 2010

By: Brody Mullins, Tom McGinty, and Jason Zweig

October 11, 2010--Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—Chris Miller nearly doubled his $3,500 stock investment in a renewable-energy firm in 2008. It was a perfectly legal bet, but he's no ordinary investor.

Mr. Miller is the top energy-policy adviser to Nevada Democrat and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who helped pass legislation that wound up benefiting the firm.

Jim Manley, a spokesman for Mr. Reid's office, initially defended Mr. Miller's purchase of shares in the company, Energy Conversion Devices Inc. He said the aide had no influence over tax incentives for renewable-energy firms, and that other factors boosted the stock.

But on Sunday, Mr. Manley added: "Mr. Miller showed poor judgment and Senator Reid has made it very clear to Chris and all his staff that their actions must not only follow the law, but must meet the higher standards the public has a right to expect from elected officials and their staffs."

NRC Chairman Killing Yucca Without Authority

BY Editor, ON OCTOBER 07, 2010

By: Jack Spencer

October 7, 2010--The Heritage Foundation

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Gregory Jaczko has ordered his staff to stop the review of the nuclear materials repository at Yucca Mountain. Aside from the harmful policy implications of this action, the chairman seems to be moving forward without any authority to do so.

President Obama has made it clear that he supports terminating the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository. And despite there being no scientific or technical evidence to support ^[2] the decision and the fact that he has no plan for how the United States should manage its nuclear waste absent Yucca ^[3], he has that right. But neither he, his Administration, nor the NRC has the right to ignore existing statute, the legal process, or the will of Congress.

Sen. Graham Will ‘Block Any Effort’ to Slow Oil Sands Imports

BY Editor, ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

By Ben Geman

September 29, 2010--The Hill

Senate Democrats Again Side with Obama EPA and Job-Killing Regulations Over Struggling American Families, Farmers, and Workers

BY Editor, ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

September 27, 2010--Senator Kit Bond

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Kit Bond’s attempt to protect American families and workers from job-killing Obama administration regulations was blocked by Senate Democrats siding with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bureaucrats rather than struggling American families, farmers, and workers.

“If the Democrats are serious about protecting jobs they would have sided with the American people, rather than EPA bureaucrats,” said Bond. “It’s disappointing that Democrats again blocked bipartisan action to protect the American people from the backdoor national energy tax coming in the form of new job-killing carbon regulations from EPA,” said Bond.

Tonight, Bond proposed that the Senate act without further delay to consider and pass S. 3072, Senator Rockefeller’s bill, to delay for 2 years EPA actions to develop or implement new carbon regulations. Unfortunately, Senate Democrats blocked Bond’s effort.