News Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate passed legislation today aimed at overcoming bureaucratic roadblocks that prevent expedited shipments of American natural gas exports to buyers around the world. The provision, authored by U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), was included in the bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act (S. 2012). The bill also includes a number of other energy-state provisions that are important to the West, Barrasso said.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor highlighting the illegality of sending U.S. taxpayer dollars to the United Nation’s Green Climate Fund.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) questioned Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy about recent energy-job losses in Wyoming and the EPA’s unacceptable response to the Gold King Mine spill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) and 14 other lawmakers from Wyoming, Utah and Colorado called on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to grant Jordan Cove a rehearing request for its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) led a group of 28 senators in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry demanding that the administration follow the law and prohibit funding for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its related entities.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining, delivered the following opening statement at the subcommittee’s oversight hearing on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed venting and flaring rule for natural gas from oil wells on federal and Indian land.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) welcomed Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Director Todd Parfitt before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Senator Barrasso invited Parfitt to testify on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed rule on venting and flaring for natural gas from oil wells located on federal and Indian land. Parfitt testified alongside Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the Department of the Interior Amanda Leiter, and three others.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor highlighting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unacceptable response to Western states and Indian tribes affected by last August’s Gold King Mine disaster.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) questioned chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Stephen Burns about ways to improve the NRC permitting process. Burns was testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing on the president’s budget request for the NRC.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor highlighting energy-job losses in Wyoming and the importance of the energy industry to Wyoming and America.