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E&E News
18-06-2025
- Business
- E&E News
Bipartisan bill would move DOE office to Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's senators are sponsoring legislation to move the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy from Washington to Pittsburgh. Sen. Dave McCormick, a Republican, and Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat, last week teamed up to introduce the bill, which would force the move a year after passage. 'For far too long, federal agencies in Washington have been physically removed from the workers and industries they regulate,' McCormick said in a statement. Advertisement 'I'm proud to partner with Senator Fetterman on this legislation to bring a critical Energy Department office to Pittsburgh near the heart of the Marcellus.'
E&E News
09-05-2025
- Politics
- E&E News
Republicans tell DOE pick to protect carbon capture money
A pair of Senate Republicans pressed a Department of Energy nominee over the fate of carbon capture programs Thursday, after the White House threatened to cut back funding for the technology. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski told Kyle Haustveit, nominee to head the Office of Fossil Energy, that two carbon capture projects in her home state of Alaska are threatened amid the agency's ongoing spending review. 'Both of these [projects] are in limbo right now,' Murkowski said during Haustveit's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing. 'We're concerned that they may be on a DOE list of cuts going to the White House.' Advertisement The agency's carbon capture programs have faced even more uncertainty after the release of the White House's budget request last week, which called fror ending 'Green New Scam' funding to projects that 'remove carbon dioxide from the air.'
