Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings praised Energy and Minerals Subcommittee Chairman Doug Lamborn for introducing The PIONEER Act (The Protecting Investment in Oil shale the Next Generation of Environment, Energy, and Resource Security Act), H.R. 2540, to expand production of oil shale, one of our country’s most viable new energy sources. Ranking Member… Read more »
Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA):
“Expressed ‘strong support’ for a major oil and gas title from House Natural Resources Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), but both acknowledged it may move separately rather than as part of the Democratic energy and climate bill.”
She also said:
"We need to increase domestic production in a manner that he suggests in the… Read more »
Today, the Rural America Solutions Group held a press conference on Capitol Hill to highlight the negative impacts of the Democrats’ national energy tax legislation on rural America. This national energy tax, under consideration this week by the Energy and Commerce Committee, would disproportionately spike rural American energy bills, harm agriculture production and threaten small… Read more »
Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings and Representatives Bill Cassidy, Don Young, John Fleming, Louie Gohmert, Rob Bishop, Doug Lamborn, Steve Scalise and Jason Chaffetz sent the attached letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar regarding the Administration’s inaction on a recent court decision that vacated the current 2007-2012 offshore oil and… Read more »
Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings joined House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence and other members of the American Energy Solutions Group in their Energy Summit.
During this event, Ranking Member Hastings issued the following statement regarding the differences between Republicans’ all-of-the-above energy plan and Congressional Democrats’… Read more »
The Bias Against Oil And Gas
By Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
May 4, 2009
Considering the brutal recession, you'd expect the Obama administration to be obsessed with creating jobs. And so it is, say the president and his supporters. The trouble is that there's one glaring exception to their claims: the oil and natural gas industries. The administration is biased against them… Read more »
Obama Stands in the Way of Our Energy Future
By Congressman Doc Hastings
Townhall
April 29, 2009
In case you haven’t noticed, today marks President Obama’s 100th day in office. One thing that hasn’t changed over the past three months is the President’s ongoing practice of using empty rhetoric and straw-man arguments. Americans only had to hear the President’s recent Earth Day speech… Read more »
In advance of President Obama’s 100th day in office, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings released the following statement and timeline regarding the new Administration’s actions on issues related to the Committee:
“If past is prologue, President Obama’s first 100 days in office do not bode well for the future of American energy production, public use of public… Read more »
Selling The Green Economy
By Robert J. Samuelson
Washington Post
April 27, 2009
Few things are more appealing in politics than something for nothing. As Congress begins considering anti-global-warming legislation, environmentalists hold out precisely that tantalizing prospect: We can conquer global warming at virtually no cost. Here's a typical claim, from the Environmental Defense… Read more »
