Donnelly: Much-Needed Bipartisan Legislation Would Help Modernize Energy Policy
Donnelly Statement on Announcement that Purdue and Sandia Labs Will Form Strategic Alliance
Senate Bill Would Speed Permits for Pipelines like Keystone
Donnelly, Heitkamp and Colleagues to President: Reassess NSPS Proposal
Joe Donnelly and Heidi Heitkamp, with five Senate colleagues, expressed their concerns with and asked for a reassessment of the proposed New Source Performance Standard (NSPS). Read More
Donnelly Applauds Move to Cut Red Tape on Infrastructure Projects
US Senators, including Joe Donnelly, are applauding the announcement by the White House to implement a fast-tracking plan for new projects. Read More
Donnelly Voices Continued Support of Biofuels
Yesterday, Senator Joe Donnelly joined Senators Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Maria Cantwell of Washington, and Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken of Minnesota at a press conference to voice his support for restoring the lapsed Biodiesel Tax Credit and to call on the Obama Administration to revise its proposal for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in 2014. Read More
Democrat Senators push for new RFS and tax credits for biodiesel
Biodiesel producers joined a group of Democrat senators at a press conference Wednesday, calling for Congress to restore the biodiesel tax incentive and for the EPA and the Obama administration to rethink its plan to reduce mandated biofuel use under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). Read More
Soy growers praise biodiesel support from farm state senators
American Soybean Association President Ray Gaesser, a farmer from Corning, Iowa, praised Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), for speaking up in support for biodiesel. Read More
Senators and biodiesel industry push DC for RFS and tax credit
Farm state Senators and biodiesel producers charge uncertain federal policies are hurting biodiesel jobs and production. Read More
Senators want feds to support biofuels
U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., flanked by five other Democratic senators, and producer/processors from their states, launched an effort Wednesday to re-up federal support for biofuels. Read More