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Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee member presses nominees on solicitor authority, grid reliability and fossil-energy duties
Summary
A member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources welcomed three nominees and raised concerns about the limits of the Interior solicitor’s authority, electricity affordability and grid planning, and the scope of the fossil-energy assistant secretary’s portfolio.
A member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources opened a confirmation hearing for three nominees and pressed them on the limits of the solicitor’s authority, electricity affordability and transmission planning, and the scope of responsibilities for the assistant secretary for fossil energy.
“The solicitor does not make law, only interpret and enforce the laws enacted by Congress,” the committee member said, and criticized a senior aide to Secretary Burgum for using the solicitor’s office to suspend prior legal opinions and for reinstating an opinion that had been vacated by a federal…
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