Sanders wants to kill Keystone, transform system away from fossil fuels Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, campaigning for the Democrat Party nomination for president, issued statements about his energy position after the administration’s Clean Power Plan was announced in August. As quoted by the Des Moines Register, Sanders said: “President Obama understands that climate change is the great planetary crisis facing
Rubio favors lifting the crude oil export ban Florida Senator Marco Rubio, campaigning for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination at an oil and gas event in Oklahoma, voiced his stance on some energy policies yesterday. According to an AP report, Rubio called the ban on crude-oil exports “a throwback to the 1970s, long before a domestic oil production boom that resulted from
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources seeks to end crude export ban The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) passed a bill that would end the ban on the export of U.S. crude oil yesterday by a vote of 12-10, largely along party lines, reports Reuters. Now that the bill has made it through the ENR,
