What’s left to say about the energy bill? Plenty. What took the U.S. Congress more than 10 years to craft and three sessions to pass overcame partisan wrangling and warfare to finally reach the president’s desk for his signature.
Read More Conferees are trying to iron out differences in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 passed by each House.
Read More New truck drivers are going to have to go through new training procedures.
Read More After failing to get the Senate to approve the comprehensive Energy Policy Act, supporters introduced a smaller package in hopes it would allay fears of reluctant senators about increasing the budget deficit.
Read More Senate backers of major energy legislation have introduced a slimmed-down package since the Senate has not approved a conference agreement.
Read More The feds want states to beef up their watch of hazmat carriers, and they’re asking Congress for hundreds of millions of dollars to help states do the job.
Read More The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed dismantling the Research & Special Programs Administration and moving the Office of Pipeline Safety into the Federal Railroad Administration – an agency familiar with hazmat transportation – as a result of heightened security fears.
Read More For the second year in a row, big benefits to the propane industry didn’t quite make it through Congress.
Read More The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program could get $3.4 billion in each of the next three years under the Poverty Reduction & Prevention Act of 2003.
Read More Look for another contentious conference over energy legislation in Congress this fall. Rather than slug it out provision by provision on the Senate floor, the Senate has passed the same bill it approved last year.
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