On January 31, the U.S. Department of State published the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Keystone XL Pipeline, following a 2013 draft of the SEIS that received over 1.5 million public comments.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee (E&C) issued a report encouraging the Department of Energy (DOE) to expedite permitting for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to non-free trade agreement (FTA) nations, including India and Japan.
Congressman Doc Hastings (R-WA) announced this February that he will not run for reelection in November. His retirement comes 2 decades after Hastings was first voted into office in 1994.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) claims diminished precipitation levels over the past three years could be the worst in California’s one-hundred-year recorded history. The drought has prompted legislative action from federal sources.
Following the passage of the bipartisan omnibus budget agreement in January, goodwill continued to permeate Capitol Hill as Democrats and Republicans in both chambers passed a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling until March 2015.
This month, NASA is requesting applications from private commercial spaceflight industries to partner with them in developing technologies capable of delivering cargo to the Moon.