Energy panel votes to send broad policy bill to Senate floor

Oil & Gas Journal (online registration required): The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee sent the broad energy policy bill developed by Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) and Ranking Minority Member Maria E. Cantwell (D-Wash.) to the full Senate for final debate by 18 to 4 votes on July 30. Eight committee Democrats joined 10 Republicans in supporting it, Murkowski said. Her standalone bill, which would end the 40-year-old US ban on exporting US-produced oil and expand federal offshore oil and gas revenue sharing to Alaska, southern Mid-Atlantic coastal states, and more of the US Gulf Coast passed later in the day by a narrower margin (OGJ Online, July 31, 2015). "Our committee took bold steps today to update and modernize...

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