Overview
E&E News profiled former Senator J. Bennett Johnston in a May 31 article titled "Senator Who Held 1st Climate Hearing: We've Gotten 'So Tribal.'" In the Q&A profile, Senator Johnston discusses helming a powerful committee, running for reelection against a member of the Ku Klux Klan and urging bipartisanship in an era of "tribal" warfare. As ranking member and then chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee from 1981 to 1994, the Louisiana lawmaker oversaw the passage of most of the United States' major energy legislation for decades. He also made waves by holding the first-ever congressional hearing on climate change.
Senator Johnston, through a strategic alliance between his firm, Johnston & Associates and Steptoe, provides key legislative and public policy advice to clients of the Government Affairs & Public Policy practice at Steptoe.
The full profile can be read at E&E News.
