Jeff Bingaman

Evidence of this is the bipartisan support represented by the co-sponsorship of this legislation by Wyoming Senator John Banasso.

I believe you have struck exactly the right balance in the manner you have written the bill.

We should not turn our back on this vital indigenous energy resource.

I sincerely appreciate your solid leadership in moving this important legislation forward.

We applaud Chairman Bingaman as well as the co-sponsors for introducing this legislation.

Southern Company commends Senator Bingaman and his co-sponsors of S. 1013 for addressing these complicated but necessary issues.

Southern commends Senator Bingaman and the other sponsors of S. 1013 for taking this important first step in resolving some of the risk management questions surrounding carbon capture and storage.

This legislation also maps out a clear framework for closing down a geological storage site.

The creation of an indemnity program for these large scale, early mover projects is an important, necessary step to building confidence for project developers as well as the public.

It establishes a national indemnity program through the Department of Energy for up to ten commercial scale, carbon capture and sequestration projects.

I think she is an extremely good choice by the President, and this is emblematic of the choices he has been making generally in his nominations.

I want to strongly recommend Florence Pan for this important position.

Preventing these kinds of hurricane-related shortages is an achievable goal.

Just the thought that foreign agents are hacking into our control systems is obviously alarming

We have come to believe that these provisions do not provide sufficient protection against computer attacks.

Chairman Bingaman and other Senators on this Committee should be commended for their work on enacting Section 215.

Both the recent Republican Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Joe Kelliher, and the current Democratic Chair, Jon Wellinghoff, have indicated that they believe they need stronger authority to deal with cyber threats and…

Absent Congressional direction, the political process will make it extremely difficult for states to abandon existing less environmentally preferable coal fired and other units.

Hopefully now with a greater appreciation of distributed generation and the urgent need to bring clean energy alternatives online, we will be able to incorporate the policies we need in the comprehensive energy bill that the committee is…

I guess I am hearing a fairly consistent message from folks that there really is no logical reason for not having uniform interconnection standards across the country.

I think this hearing should be enlightening and help us to understand what additional steps we can take to facilitate energy production from all sources.

I appreciate that this is a very tricky balance.

It is up to Congress to set national energy policy.

We thought in the 2005 energy bill that we had dealt with this to a significant extent, but obviously, I think history has demonstrated that we did not do all that needed to be done.

S. 967, which was introduced by Senator Bingaman on May 4, 2009, would direct the Secretary of Energy to develop a plan to include refined petroleum products in the SPR.