Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the Administration's green jobs event:
"Today, the Obama Administration is holding another high-level event to unveil a report about its efforts to create green jobs. Unfortunately, away from the spotlight, the Administration continues to quietly undermine almost every… Read more »
Earlier this week, the New York Times wrote an editorial regarding the Obama Administration’s recent decision to block energy development in Utah and its upcoming decision regarding offshore drilling on America’s Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Unfortunately, the piece was so misleading that a simple letter to the editor would not fully address all of the New York Times’ inaccuracies and… Read more »
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Background:
A Postcard from the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, June 2, 2009.
On October 9, 2009 the White House announced that President Obama and Cabinet Members will travel to New Orleans on Thursday, October 15.
In August, the Wall Street Journal reported that “the U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s announcement that only 17 out of 77 parcels of land in Utah will be leased for oil and gas production:
“With unemployment near 10 percent, it’s astounding that the Obama Administration is once again blocking American energy… Read more »
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Highlights:
The Obama Administration’s Hypocrisy on All-of-the-Above Energy Development
“After Americans experienced four dollar gasoline last summer, there was a larger understanding that we need to utilize the resources we have here within our country -- namely, the Outer Continental Shelf and federal lands and in Alaska. When this administration came in, the… Read more »
Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the Department of Labor’s report that the U.S. economy lost nearly 263,000 jobs in September, raising the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent:
“Unemployment in parts of the U.S. energy sector, including in the mining, oil and gas industries, has soared to double digits.1 … Read more »
Today, House Natural Resources Ranking Member Doc Hastings joined the entire Utah Congressional delegation in opposing the America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 (H.R. 1925) – a bill that would lock up 9.5 million acres of land in Utah and block energy development, job creation and public land access. Of the 146 cosponsors of the bill, not a single one is from the state of… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) and Ranking Member Doc Hastings (R-WA) today introduced bipartisan legislation to provide an extended time frame to complete the construction of an underground visitor and education center near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Memorial) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
“The black granite that comprises the Vietnam… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding the National Energy Tax legislation introduced by Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA):
“Since the House passed the National Energy Tax bill in June and sent it to the Senate, America’s unemployment rate has risen from 9.4 percent to 9.7… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement today regarding the announcement of a draft Klamath dam removal agreement that could potentially cost $450 million:
“Congress needs to ask some real hard questions on why federal taxpayers should be footing any of the bill to tear out dams owned by a private corporation. Paying for this… Read more »
