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���The President���s budget proposal alleviates the harmful impact of across-the-board sequester cuts, which hits the federal workforce and military and civilian defense workers across Virginia especially hard."…
Supporters and opponents of Keystone XL have at times overstated their claims, and I voted to move forward on Keystone XL because it is in America���s economic and national energy…
Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mark Warner (D-VA) welcomed Senate passage of their bipartisan amendment to the Keystone X.L. Pipeline bill to help make schools more energy efficient.…
This is a significant step in a multi-year process that should result in the safe, responsible development of energy resources off the Virginia and mid-Atlantic coasts.…
���I was disappointed last week when Republican leaders abruptly backtracked on a promise to hold a full and open debate on the Keystone bill."…
“I support construction of the Keystone pipeline. A State Department environmental review found the project will not significantly add to global warming, it will create jobs (though likely not as…
The benefits of advancing energy production are significant: It would diversify Hampton Roads' economy, provide revenue for our schools and roads, and lessen our dependence on foreign energy. And we…
Senator Warner brought together more than 80 federal, state and local officials to discuss how to make crude oil-by-rail safer following the April 30 derailment of a 105-unit oil train…
These draft regulations on existing source carbon power plant emissions are complicated, consequential and far-reaching, and I am pleased the Administration wisely decided to accept our recommendation to double the…
Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA), with six Senate colleagues, expressed their deep concerns with and asked for a reassessment of the Environmental Protection Agency���s (EPA) proposed New Source Performance Standard…