Robust safety and environmental standards, and tough penalties for noncompliance with those standards, help to avoid disasters.

today I am introducing the Supply Star Act of 2010 to drive widespread improvements in supply chain energy efficiency. Companies today are facing pressure on many fronts--from customers, stockholders, business partners, and regulators--to…

We need to ensure that we have adequate liability coverage for offshore drilling.

While today's hearing will focus on liability and financial issues, we continue to have foremost in our minds the human component of this accident.

We need to ensure that those harmed by this accident are fully compensated and that a system is in place that properly allocates risks and losses.

It's a sobering reality to see oil begin to impact the shorelines and know that this well is not yet under control.

I do think and agree quite strongly with the chairman that we must diversify our energy sources to include wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, as well as nuclear and other sources.

we have significant concerns about the negative impact that the bill, in its present form, would have on wind energy development

Sixteen years ago, Senator Feinstein shepherded into law one of the most sweeping conservation bills ever.

The California Desert Protection Act represents a significant and laudable effort to preserve the environment and promote the development of renewable energy while, at the same time, protecting the ability of the U.S. military to carry out…

Chairman Bingaman and members of the Committee, thank you for your consideration of our comments and we look forward to working with you and Senator Feinstein to both improve and pass this important legislation.

This is legislation Senator Feinstein has proposed.