Alaska Politics

News bites: Murkowski eyes energy gavel, crafts agendaThe Hill (blog)Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who will chair the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee if Republicans take the Senate in this fall's elections. Bloomberg looks at a report showing that Japan's devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant might have ...and more »  

Details are still under wraps, but Senator Lisa Murkowski plans to unveil this summer a long-term vision with affordable energy at its core, a plan she has been working on with her staff for the past eight months. "I want to get out front early next year ...  

F-16 Fighting Falcon refuels from KC-10A Extender. Photo courtesy U.S. Air Force FAIRBANKS — U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday brought a new argument into the debate about whether Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks should keep a squadron of F ...  

TransCanada Corp. is reapplying for a federal permit to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and there are plenty of good conservative reasons to urge President Obama — who kiboshed Keystone in January — to allow it this time. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) manage to find none of them:  The reasons for approving the pipeline are straightforward: It’s a shovel-ready project that’s great for our economy. It...  

Senator Lisa Murkowski today questioned EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson about the agency’s expansion of a study of hydraulic fracturing beyond what was authorized by Congress. Murkowski asked Administrator Jackson if the agency was prejudging the findings ...