House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement today regarding reports that the Obama Administration may not complete a new Outer Continental Shelf lease plan until 2012:
“Yesterday, during Secretary Salazar’s testimony before the House Natural Resources Committee, Republicans repeatedly asked him for specific details on his… Read more »
Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) and other Republican committee members issued the following statements after the second hearing on the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009 (H.R. 3534). This bill would establish more roadblocks on the road to American energy production and job creation.
“Before we know it, the American… Read more »
Today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar testified before the House Natural Resources Committee on the Democrats’ Roadblock to Energy Bill (H.R. 3534). Below are excerpts of questions and answers between Secretary Salazar and members of the committee on key issues including H.R. 3534, oil and natural gas production, the man-made California drought, and renewable energy. Watch the… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following opening statement at today’s Full Committee hearing on The Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009 (H.R. 3534):
“The specific topic of today’s hearing is H.R. 3534. Under the schedule set by Chairman Rahall, Secretary Salazar is just the first of many witnesses that the… Read more »
Today, September 16th, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing on the CLEAR Act – a bill that throws up tax and fee roadblocks on the path to American energy production and job creation.
Read Editions #1 and #2 of the Democrats’ Roadblock to Energy bill.
Roadblock #7: Increasing fees on wind and solar energy production (Sec. 503). Under this provision, wind… Read more »
On September 16th, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing on the CLEAR Act – a bill that throws up countless roadblocks on the path to American energy production and job creation.
Click here to read Edition #1 of the Democrats’ Roadblock to Energy bill.
Roadblock #4: Blocking all energy production, including wind and solar, on public land (Sec. 101).… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the Obama Administration’s Columbia River salmon recovery biological opinion (BiOp) plan that was released today. Hastings is an outspoken defender of the Northwest’s hydropower dams as clean, renewable sources of low-cost energy. The district that Hastings represents in Congress… Read more »
On September 16th, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing on the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) – a bill that throws up the following bureaucratic roadblocks on the path to American energy production and job creation:
Roadblock #1: Creating Yet Another New Federal Government Office (Sec. 101). This provision creates a detour on the path toward energy production by… Read more »
Forest Fire Funds Aid D.C. Festivals
Stephen Dinan
Washington Times
September 11, 2009
Even with forest fires raging out West, the U.S. Forest Service this week announced it will spend nearly $2.8 million in forest-fire-fighting money in Washington -- a city with no national forests and where the last major fire was probably lit by British troops in 1814.
The D.C. aid is going to… Read more »
Today, Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee launched a new website to better communicate information directly to the American people regarding their efforts in Congress. Click here to view the website.
“It’s important for the American people to have a modern, user-friendly way to access information about Republican Committee Members’ efforts to increase American… Read more »
