88 Representatives Send Letter to Interior Secretary Salazar Regarding the De-facto Obama OCS Moratorium Read more »

While the Administration implements an “Obama Moratorium” on new offshore drilling until 2012, Americans across the country are already bracing for higher prices at the pump – and it’s not even summer driving season yet. Consumers dig deeper for gasoline (Daily Sentinel 3/16/10) Gasoline prices reach 16-month high (White Mountain Independent 3/16/10) Green Bay gas… Read more »

House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding today’s announcement that the Democrat Majority will reschedule the Energy and Minerals Subcommittee hearing on the President’s FY 2011 Budget: “I am thankful that the Majority agrees with Republicans on the necessity of holding this oversight hearing. Few issues are more… Read more »

Committee Republicans Call on Democrat Majority to Reschedule Canceled Energy Budget Hearing Read more »

Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04), Energy and Minerals Subcommittee Ranking Member Doug Lamborn (CO-05) and six other Members of the Committee sent a letter to Energy and Minerals Subcommittee Chairman Jim Costa requesting that the oversight hearing on the President's Fiscal Year 2011 budget be immediately rescheduled. The President’s budget… Read more »

House Natural Resources Committee Members John Fleming and Adrian Smith took to the House Floor this week to express their concerns over the recent decision by the Obama Administration to delay any new offshore energy production until 2012. Rep. Fleming stated: "This decision flies in the face of the bipartisan action in 2008 lifting the decades long ban on energy development on 500… Read more »

Jeff Schreiber with America’s Right blogged about Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s decision to put a stop to all new energy development off America’s coast until at least 2012. Here's a passage from Jeff’s post: “As the rest of the nation buzzed about matters of health care reform and political gamesmanship, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar quietly explained to reporters last week… Read more »

A new Gallup survey released today shows that Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical about global warming.  48% of Americans now say the seriousness of global warming is "generally exaggerated."  That result is the highest ever recorded by Gallup; a seven point rise in last the last year and a 17-point jump since they began asking the question in 1998.   Similarly, two-thirds of… Read more »

An Energy Head Fake The Administration is still hostile to oil drilling and nuclear power. Wall Street Journal Editorial March 11, 2010 President Obama used his January State of the Union speech to promise "a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants" and "new offshore areas for oil and gas development." Judging by its recent decisions, we'd say his Cabinet hasn't… Read more »

Dear Colleague, I am asking you to join me in sending the attached letter to Secretary Salazar demanding that he roll back the “Obama Moratorium” on OCS development. On March 5, Secretary Salazar said that the Department will not be issuing an OCS lease plan until 2012 rather in July of this year. This means that the Draft Proposed Plan, initiated in 2008 and proposed as a draft in… Read more »