The Biden administration is scrambling to ease the gasoline crunch that is causing scattered shortages and fears of price spikes in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
The Biden administration is scrambling to ease the gasoline crunch that is causing scattered shortages and fears of price spikes in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast — one of the most economically and politically worrisome consequences of the cyberattack that shuttered one of the nation’s biggest fuel pipelines.
Granholm said she has also briefed the governors of North Carolina and Virginia, both of whom have declared states of emergency to allow their own agencies to waive regulations that could hamper fuel shipments. In a statement on Tuesday, Colonial Pipeline said since it had shut the line down, it had supplied nearly 41 million gallons of product to customers, and it was prioritizing areas that were seeing supply constraints.
Meanwhile, Rep. Yvette Clarke , who chairs a Homeland Security subcommittee, became the first lawmaker to announce congressional hearings on the attack. “I plan to hold hearings on this incident to explore how we, as a nation, can prevent similar attacks in the future as well as to assess the federal response,”But some other Republicans used the disaster to call for the administration to ease its resistance to new pipelines.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told the White House briefing that the move to consider lifting the Jones Act restrictions was not driven a statement saying that Biden was "evaluating every action the Administration can take to mitigate the impact as much as possible. The President has directed agencies across the Federal Government to bring their resources to bear to help alleviate shortages where they may occur."The assault — via ransomware from the cyber gang DarkSide — is the latest ransomware strike on U.S. companies, and it is the biggest ever cyber assault on U.S. energy infrastructure.
The Energy Department's office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response has been the main point of contact between the federal government and the Colonial Pipeline. It's now led by acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Puesh Kumar, who headed cybersecurity at utility Southern California Edison.
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