Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing to examine decades of data manipulation at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), generally recognized as a preeminent scientific organization of the federal government.
The Department of the Interior Inspector General and a Scientific Integrity Review Panel both found a chronic pattern of scientific… Read more »
TO: Director Dan Ashe
FROM: Chairman Rob Bishop and Chairman Louie Gohmert
Dear Director Ashe:
The Committee is conducting oversight of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) use of voluntary payments by energy developers to mitigate impacts on migratory birds. In 2001, Executive Order 13186 directed "departments and agencies to take certain actions to further implement the… Read more »
TO: The Honorable Suzette Kimball
FROM: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Louie Gohmert
Dear Director Kimball:
The Committee on Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is conducting oversight of scientific misconduct and data manipulation at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Read the entire letter HERE. Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing on the status of the federal government’s inconsistent and unsuccessful wolf management efforts in the United States. The panel, which included local and state witnesses, focused on red wolves in the Southeast, gray wolves in the Northwest and Western Great Lakes and Mexican wolves in the Southwest.
“For… Read more »
TO: The Honorable Dan Ashe
FROM: Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop
Dear Director Ashe:
On August 5, 2015, an Environmental Protection Agency-led crew ("EPA") discharged 3 million gallons of contaminated water from the Gold King Mine, located in San Juan County, Colorado into the Animas and the San Juan River systems.
Read the entire letter HERE. Read more »
TO: The Honorable Gina A. McCarthy
FROM: Chairman Rob Bishop and Chairman Fred Upton
Dear Administrator McCarthy:
Under section I 08(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the… Read more »
TO: The Honorable Suzette Kimball
FROM: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Louie Gohmert
Dear Director Kimball:
In June 2016, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of the Interior (DOI) released a report entitled "Scientific Integrity Incident at USGS Energy Geochemistry Laboratory."
Read the entire letter HERE. Read more »
TO: The Honorable Sally Jewell
FROM: Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop
Dear Secretary Jewell:
In April 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) drafted an after action review titled, “Strengthening Cultural Resources Stewardship in the National Park Service.”
Read the entire letter HERE. Read more »
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Gold King Mine blowout near Silverton, Colorado. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement:
“A year later, the Obama Administration still won’t tell us the whole truth. Accounts of events from Interior and EPA have been inconsistent and… Read more »
Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on the status of Ivanpah and other federal loan-guaranteed solar energy projects on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands.
The Obama Administration has subsidized billions of taxpayer dollars in renewable energy projects that have significantly underperformed, killed federally protected birds and destroyed the… Read more »
