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WILDLIFE
  • Conserving and recovering American species and their habitats
  • Protecting our ecosystems and growing the outdoor recreation economy
  • Enhancing international wildlife conservation efforts
  • National wildlife refuges 
NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC LANDS
  • Enhancing America’s National Parks
  • Protecting wilderness and conservation sites
  • Fostering opportunities for hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation
  • Developing environmental regulation and public participation
WATER AND OCEANS
  • Protecting our oceans, coasts and vulnerable sea life from pollution, climate change, and other threats
  • Creating new water supplies to aid communities affected by the drought
  • Securing water supply certainty for tribal communities
  • Preparing communities for climate-change impacts on water supplies
ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES
  • Monitoring the development of oil and gas onshore and offshore
  • Establishing renewable energy sources - solar, wind, geothermal, and ocean energy
  • Overseeing coal and hardrock mining regulations
  • Ensuring a fair return for the American people for energy & mineral development
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE UNITED STATES
  • Protecting tribal sovereignty authority over lands and natural resources
  • Empowering tribal governments with enhanced self-governance authorities 
  • Fostering political and economic development of the insular areas
  • Continuing efforts to advance economic self-sufficiency of the Freely Associated States
Oversight and Investigations
  • Administering congressional oversight
  • Evaluating the committee’s efforts to ensure effective management of our limited natural resources
  • Ensuring policies are grounded in science that is free of financial conflicts of interest
Insular Affairs
  • Coordinate federal legislation for the U.S. territories of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI).
  • Oversee legislation to provide federal assistance under Compacts of Free Association to the Freely Associated States. 
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