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The United States Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy is one of four subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

Jurisdiction

This subcommittee's jurisdiction includes oversight and legislative responsibilities for:

nuclear, coal and synthetic fuels research and development;
nuclear and non-nuclear energy commercialization projects;
nuclear fuel cycle policy;
Department of Energy National Laboratories;
global climate change;
new technologies research and development;
nuclear facilities siting and insurance program;
commercialization of new technologies including, solar energy systems;
Federal energy conservation programs;
energy information;
liquefied natural gas projects;
oil and natural gas regulation;
refinery policy;
coal conversion;
utility policy;
Strategic Petroleum Reserves;
regulation of Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and other oil and gas pipeline transportation systems within Alaska Arctic research and energy development;
oil, gas and coal production and distribution.

Majority	Minority
Bernie Sanders, Vermont, Chair^[1] Ron Wyden, Oregon Martin Heinrich, New Mexico Mazie Hirono, Hawaii Angus King, Maine^[1] Catherine Cortez Masto, Nevada John Hickenlooper, Colorado	Josh Hawley, Missouri, Ranking Member Jim Risch, Idaho Lisa Murkowski, Alaska John Hoeven, North Dakota Bill Cassidy, Louisiana Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi
Ex officio
Joe Manchin, West Virginia^[1]	John Barrasso, Wyoming

Source:^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c Sens. Sanders, King and Manchin are Independents, but caucus with Democrats on the committee.
^ "Energy". U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Retrieved April 13, 2023.