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Second Subpoena Issued to Interior Dept for Investigation into New Obama Coal Regulations that Could Cost Thousands of Jobs
Press Release
May 11, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today issued a second subpoena to the Department of the Interior (DOI) for additional information relating to the investigation into the Obama Administration’s rewrite of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule (Rule) that began over a year ago. The second subpoena fo... More

Department of the Interior Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs Director Christopher Mansour Follow-up Letter to Chairman Hastings Regarding Request for Specified Documents on the Rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule
Letters
Apr 27, 2012 - Dear Mr. Chairman: This supplements our previous responses to your subpoena of April 12, 2012, and prior letters requesting documents related to the Department's ongoing Stream Protection rulemaking process. Read the entire letter HERE. More

Experts Express Need for Onshore Energy and Mining Bills to Create Jobs, Streamline Government Inefficiencies
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Apr 26, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing on several onshore energy and mining bills that would streamline government processes to lower gasoline prices, create jobs, and increase American energy and critical mineral production. “The focus today is onshore energy development. Un... More

Amodei Introduces Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act
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Apr 19, 2012 - Today, in the spirit of House Republicans’ American Energy Initiative, Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02) introduced H.R. 4402, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012, to allow the United States to more efficiently develop our Nation's strategic and critical minerals, such as rare earth elements, tha... More

Interior Department Disregards President Obama's Transparency Pledge, Fails to Comply with Subpoena on Coal Regulations that Internal Documents Show Would Destroy Thousands of American Jobs
Press Release
Apr 12, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Department of the Interior failed to provide the documents requested in the April 4, 2012 subpoena related to the Committee’s more than year-long investigation into the Obama Administration’s rewrite of a coal pro... More

Subpoena Issued for Documents on the Obama Administration's Rewrite of a Coal Production Regulation
Press Release
Apr 5, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today issued the first subpoena to the Department of the Interior for documents related to the Committee’s more than year-long investigation into the Obama Administration’s rewrite of a coal production regulation, the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule. The spec... More

FOX News Special Report: House panel clears way for administration subpoenas on drilling, coal regulation probes
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Mar 29, 2012 - House panel clears way for administration subpoenas on drilling, coal reg probes Published March 28, 2012 FoxNews.com A House Committee voted Wednesday to clear the way to subpoena the Obama administration over two separate probes -- one concerning allegations dating back to the BP spill that it misrepresented a repor... More

Committee Approves Motion Giving Chairman Authority to Issue Subpoenas on Two Oversight Investigations Impacting American Jobs and Energy Production
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Mar 28, 2012 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved a motion (23-17) to provide the Chairman with authority to issue subpoenas related to two ongoing oversight investigations: 1) regarding the Secretary of the Interior’s decision and the process to rewrite a coal production regulation; and 2) regarding a Department o... More

Hastings on Subpoena Authority for Two Oversight Investigations: Obama Admin Fails to Uphold Transparency Promises
Press Release
Mar 28, 2012 - With gasoline prices reaching record highs and the economy still recovering, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings today called on the Obama Administration to uphold their promises of transparency and turn over documents related to two issues that directly impact American jobs and energy production. T... More

Hastings Statement on Federal Judge Reversal of Obama Administration's Unprecedented Move to Retroactively Destroy Coal Mining Jobs
Press Release
Mar 23, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement after a federal judge ruled that President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency’s unprecedented move last year to retroactively revoke an Army Corps of Engineers permit for a coal mine in West Virginia “exceeded it... More

Obama Administration's Coal Mining Regulation will be Over-budget, Overdue, and Cost Thousands of Jobs and Energy Security
Press Release
Mar 6, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) Fiscal Year 2013 Budget and received testimony from OSM Director Joe Pizarchik on the status of the Obama Administration’s actions to initiate rewrite coal mining regulatio... More

Subcommittee to Examine Obama Administration's Effort to Write New Coal Mining Regulation and the Ultimate Cost to Taxpayers
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Mar 6, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold an oversight hearing on the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (OSM) Fiscal Year 2013 budget. The hearing will also be an opportunity to focus on the Obama Administration’s actions to initiate a rewrite of coal mining regulations that... More

Committee Takes Bipartisan Vote to Save 7,000 Coal Mining Jobs
Press Release
Feb 29, 2012 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 3409, the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act with a bipartisan vote of 26-18. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Bill Johnson (OH-06), prevents the Obama Administration’s unnecessary and rushed rewrite of a coal mining regulat... More

Natural Resources Committee Maintains Aggressive Oversight of Obama Administration's Overregulation of Hydraulic Fracturing
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Feb 6, 2012 - The Obama Administration’s Interior Department is one step closer to imposing new federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands—a long standing drilling technique that is necessary to extract oil and natural gas from shale reservoirs. A draft copy of the new regulations, reported last Thursday by Politic... More

Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch - Rep. Johnson
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Feb 6, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Republicans are committed to putting Americans back to work by enacting policies that embrace America’s abundant natural resources to help create jobs and grow our economy. Meet Freshman Committee Member Bill Johnson from Ohio’s Sixth Congressional District. Ohio is home to several coa... More

Natural Resources Committee Passes Bipartisan Components of American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act
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Feb 1, 2012 - The House Natural Resources Committee today passed three bipartisan American energy bills that are important components of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, which will create over a million good-paying jobs, remove government barriers to American energy production, make America more energy secure, and he... More

Business and Labor Organizations Support Republican Plan to Expand American Energy Production, Create Jobs, and Fund Critical Infrastructure
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Feb 1, 2012 - Organizations representing various sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, and energy are joining multiple labor unions to call for passage of energy portions of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, a common sense Republican plan to expand American energy production, create jobs and fund high-priority i... More

Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch – Chairman Hastings
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Jan 31, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Republicans are committed to putting Americans back to work by enacting policies that embrace America’s abundant natural resources to help create jobs and grow our economy. The Committee resumes its Job Watch series this year with Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04). Last year, the Committee... More

Final Request for Administration to Comply with Document Requests on Rewrite of Mining Rule
Press Release
Jan 25, 2012 - As part of the House Natural Resources Committee’s nearly year-long investigation into the Obama Administration’s rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule, Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-05) and Energy and Minerals Subcommittee Chairman Doug Lamborn (CO-05) sent a letter today to Secretary of the Interior Ken S... More

Hot Air Alert: President Obama Spins State of the Union Speech to Claim Credit for Inherited Energy Successes
Hot Air Alert
Jan 25, 2012 - For as much as President Obama complains about the bad economy that he inherited, he sure seems to be enjoying the inherited boom in U.S. oil and gas production on private and state lands. Last night President Obama dedicated a significant portion of his State of the Union speech to weaving a tale about what his Admini... More

Chairman Hastings Letter to Secretary Salazar Requesting Cooperation and Production of Specified Documents on the Rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule
Letters
Jan 25, 2012 - Dear Mr. Secretary: For nearly one year, we've patiently and persistently sought the Department of the Interior's ("Department") compliance with our requests for documents, communications, and information related to the rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule ("Rule") by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and... More

VIDEO RELEASE: Natural Resources Republicans Fight for More American Jobs, More American Energy
Press Release
Jan 23, 2012 - Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee released a new web video today highlighting the Committee’s work during the first session of the 112th Congress to create jobs and expand access to our own energy and natural resources. Through 115 hearings, Republicans on the Committee conducted rigorous oversight o... More

President Obama's Jobs Council Echoes House Republicans' Call for Increased American Energy Production
Press Release
Jan 17, 2012 - President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness released their “Road Map to Renewal” report on ideas for job creation. The report cited a number of “all-in” energy policy recommendations in order to create American jobs that bear a striking resemblance to the “all-of-the-above” American Energy Initiative promoted... More

Hastings: Obama Administration Once Again Blocks U.S. Energy Production, Costs American Jobs
Press Release
Jan 9, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement to impose a 20-year ban on uranium mining on one million acres of federal land in Arizona: “The Obama Administration is putting politics above Americ... More

Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch - Rep. Lamborn
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Dec 8, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Republicans are committed to putting Americans back to work by enacting policies that embrace America’s abundant natural resources to help create jobs and grow our economy. The Committee continues its Job Watch series this week with Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Chairman Do... More

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