Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning is a member of the U.S. Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Senator Bunning is also on the Subcommittees for Energy, Public Lands and Forests, and Water and Power. The address of the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee is: 304 Dirksen Senate Building, Washington, DC 20510; and its telephone number is (202) 224-4971. This committee assignment should help bring Stimulus Money to Kentucky to develop alternative energy sources, such as biodiesel and clean coal technology.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has oversight and legislative responsibilities for:
1. The Committee has oversight of the Department of the Interior, the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Forest Service
2. National Energy Policy
3. Coal production
4. Energy related aspects of deepwater ports
5. Energy regulation and conservation
6. Energy research and development
7. Extraction of minerals from oceans and Outer Continental Shelf lands
8. Hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation
9. Mining education and research
10. Mining, mineral lands, mining claims, and mineral conservation
11. National parks, recreation areas, wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, historical sites, military parks and battle fields, and on the public domain, preservation or prehistoric ruins and objects of interest.
12. Naval petroleum reserves in Alaska
13. Nonmilitary development of nuclear energy
14. Public lands and forest
15. Renewable energy resources including biofuels, wind, solar and geothermal sources of energy
16. Territorial policy (including changes in status and issues affecting Antarctica, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Marshall Islands)
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