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Nominees at Senate energy hearing pledge to speed permitting, defend scientific integrity and advance fossil-energy goals
Summary
At a hearing on three administration nominees, senators pressed the DOI solicitor nominee and two DOE nominees on permitting timelines under NEPA, DOE staffing and research priorities, methane monitoring, battery manufacturing funding and carbon-capture projects.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee took testimony from three nominees on the administration’s energy agenda and permitting reforms, with lawmakers pressing nominees on NEPA timelines, Department of Energy staffing and research priorities, and the future of carbon capture and battery manufacturing.
William Dauphmeier, nominated to be solicitor for the Department of the Interior, Catherine Jerezah, nominated to be assistant secretary of energy for electricity, and Kyle Haustfeit, nominated to be assistant secretary of energy for fossil energy, each described their backgrounds and answered senators’ questions about how they would approach statutory obligations and agency priorities if confirmed.
Dauphmeier told senators he recognizes NEPA is “a procedural statute, and it does require a hard look,” and said he would not “publish a final EIS and a record of decision that did not…
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