E&E Daily http://www.eedaily.com The Premier Information Source for Professionals Who Track Environmental and Energy Policy. en-us Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 The House by a wide margin last night passed a bill to vastly expand oil and gas development off the nation's coasts, in an Alaskan reserve and on experimental shale tracts in the Intermountain West. The 187-137 vote also for the third time advanced a GOP plan to force approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which President Obama tentatively rejected earlier this year. SPOTLIGHT Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/J8Y5wDcjLVE/1 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/1 Billions of dollars in Deepwater Horizon spill fines would be walled off in a special trust fund that could only be tapped to pay for Gulf Coast restoration, under a… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/zvET4xrD0yI/2 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/2 Citing dwindling county budgets, an absentee federal landlord and increasing wildfire risks, a House committee yesterday passed a bill along party lines that would significantly increase timber harvests and end… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/BsL1cOCBOZs/3 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/3 Oregon lawmakers yesterday unveiled a sweeping plan to increase logging and preserve new wilderness and wild and scenic rivers on roughly 2.5 million acres in their state. Reps. Peter DeFazio… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/dNfqkgzYS8o/4 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/4 Legislation that would divert some of California's limited water supplies from environmental uses to thirsty farms and businesses passed the House Natural Resources Committee yesterday. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/aoRu2OXxAxo/5 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/5 A House hearing intended to be an airing of private sector grievances over onerous regulations took an unexpected turn yesterday when a witness expounded on the virtues of and need… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/F4hSKw9a8ic/6 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/6 After a lengthy holdup over amendments to the bill, the Senate is inching forward its two-year, $109 billion transportation reauthorization with a procedural vote set for this morning. The legislation,… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/8tGzo-B0-B4/7 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/7 President Obama's proposal to give the U.S. Department of Energy a big funding boost next year is not sitting so well with some members of the Senate Energy and Natural… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/OfLlmrS35Q8/8 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/8 American Indian tribes continue to push forward with energy development on their land but meet obstacles from the federal government along the way, according to witnesses who testified at a… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/RKqksYUL99U/9 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/9 Montana Democratic Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester have introduced legislation to swap thousands of acres of subsurface coal to resolve a long-standing land dispute in that state, the result… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/qnmhpakb_Gg/10 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/10 Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) yesterday said he will draft legislation allowing voluntary industry participation as an alternative to a bipartisan cybersecurity bill that would require the federal government to set… ON THE HILL Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/Uc41QsPIxSw/11 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/11 Virginia Republicans and ex-Sen. George Allen (R) have been targeting former Gov. Tim Kaine (D) in recent weeks on a host of energy-related issues, continuing their efforts to tie the… POLITICS Fri Feb 17 09:01:00 -0500 2012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EeDaily/~3/a--KSPBrUjw/12 http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/rss/2012/02/17/12