WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement during the Committee’s hearing on a proposed rule by...
Wicker: Developing Offshore Energy is in America’s Best Interest
Miss. Senator Calls Obama’s OCS Policy ‘Misguided’WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., is leading an effort to ensure that the Department of Interior’s (DOI) five-year leasing plan for...
Wicker Opposes President Obama’s Latest EPA Overreach
New Regulations Would Increase Electricity Rates, Hurt Economic GrowthIn 2010, President Obama’s cap-and-trade legislation to regulate carbon dioxide emissions failed in Congress. The President...
Wicker, Cochran Call on President to Revoke New EPA Rules
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Thad Cochran, R-Miss., today signed a letter along with 39 Senators calling on President Obama to withdraw the recently announced Environmental...
Wicker: Draconian Climate Regulations Would Burden Miss. Farmers, Foresters
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today expressed his concerns with new Environment Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on carbon emissions during a Senate Environment and Public...
Wicker Applauds Final Passage of Water Resources Legislation
Approval of House-Senate Agreement Coincides With Positive News at Port of GulfportEarlier this month, Mississippi welcomed a new addition to the Port of Gulfport. McDermott International, which...
Miss. Senators Cosponsor Bill to Authorize Keystone XL Pipeline
Studied for Five Years, Pipeline Would be Permitted Using Congressional AuthorityWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today cosponsored legislation to approve...
Wicker, Cochran Weigh In Again on Pipeline Abandonment
Miss. Senators Say Midla Pipeline Keeps Utility Costs Low for ConsumersWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Thad Cochran, R-Miss., have sent a new letter to Federal Energy...
Wicker: LNG Exports Important to U.S. Economy, National Security
Mississippi Poised to Play Leading Role in Shale RevolutionAdvances in technology are bringing southwest Mississippi closer to the shale boom that scientists and energy producers have anticipated in...
Wicker, Cochran: OSHA to Honor Small Farm Regulatory Exemption
Agency Bends to Lawmakers’ Concerns, Abandons Effort to Oversee Small Farm Grain StorageWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today said they are pleased that...