WASHINGTON—In an interview on Fox News Channel’s America Reports yesterday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) told Fox News host John Roberts that the Willow Project is far cleaner than imported oil from Venezuela, which the Biden Administration’s recently allowed by the lifting of sanctions. As Senator Sullivan noted, Venezuelan oil is 18 times dirtier than the average American oil project. The Willow […]
WASHINGTON—In a speech on the Senate floor yesterday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) criticized the media for coverage of the latest regulatory milestone for the Willow Project that excluded the voices and perspectives of unions and Alaska Native leaders who are overwhelmingly supportive of the development. Sullivan noted that environmental activist groups from the Lower 48 were […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Angus King (I-Maine), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), and Roger […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), today welcomed the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) release of a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project on Alaska’s North Slope. “The Willow Project has earned very broad support from communities on the North Slope, Alaska […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today announced the names of 32 young Alaskans he nominated to the U.S. Military Service Academies. Senator Sullivan made his selections with the help of an Academy Review Board comprised of eleven members from across Alaska, many of whom are service academy graduates. The board reviewed applications, interviewed each of […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its “Final Determination” under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act prohibiting and restricting the use of certain waters and watersheds for the discharge of dredged and fill material from development of the Pebble mineral deposit in Southwest Alaska. Sullivan opposes the Pebble […]
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) introduced the Commitment to Veteran Support and Outreach Act to expand a community-based outreach program that helps veterans learn about and access their earned benefits. The legislation would expand and support County Veterans Service Officers (CVSO), the community-based employees […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) released the following statements after the U.S. Forest Service yesterday finalized its repeal of the Tongass National Forest’s exemption from the 2001 Roadless Rule. The decision reinstates the 2001 rule, ignoring requests from the State of Alaska and data and analysis from the last administration that […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today announced the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is awarding more than $285 million of investments to improve the reliability and service of Alaska’s ferry system, which serves more than 30 communities across 3,500 miles of coastline. The funding, all awarded to the Alaska Marine Highway System […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), and Ted Budd (R-N.C.) recently returned from a visit to the Abraham Accords member countries of Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Morocco. In visiting these countries, the senators saw firsthand how the […]