On March 25, the House Committee on Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee held a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget hearing for the Department of the Interior (DOI).
On March 25, the House Committee on Appropriations' Energy and Water Development Subcommittee held a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget hearing for Applied Energy Funding at the Department of Energy (DOE).
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in the process of updating some of its nuclear energy regulations, including nuclear operation and waste storage standards.
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.