Although President Obama today announced what he called the “expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration,” in reality the President LOCKED UP more land to American energy production - as shown on the maps below.
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Under the Presidential and Congressional Moratoria in place from 1981 through September 2008, all of the Atlantic and the majority of the Pacific… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding President Obama’s announcement that his Administration will delay a new offshore drilling plan until 2012 and include only a fraction of offshore land that was available under the 2010-2015 lease plan:
“With this announcement, the Obama Administration is attempting to pull the… Read more »
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA)
Today, President Obama will announce the building of two new nuclear reactors at a Southern Company plant in Georgia. This is a step in the right direction towards achieving energy independence in the United States, but there is much more work to be done.
Increasing nuclear power is… Read more »
President Obama: “You can see the results of last year’s investment in clean energy – in the North Carolina company that will create 1200 jobs nationwide helping to make advanced batteries; or in the California business that will put 1,000 people to work making solar panels.”
While the government spends millions of dollars to create green jobs, they are promoting job-killing… Read more »
Last night during the State of the Union address, President Obama once again stressed the need for comprehensive energy legislation. Unfortunately, we’ve heard that line before…Despite all their talk, the Obama Administration has repeatedly taken steps to block American energy production and job creation.
Republicans on the House Natural Resources released a new web video today… Read more »
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Exactly one year ago today, the newly confirmed Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar delivered his first speech to Department employees, outlining his vision for the future of the agency.
Unfortunately, Secretary Salazar’s rhetoric stands in stark contrast to… Read more »
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
In the next few days President Obama will venture to Copenhagen, Denmark to attend the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which began last week. One of the discussed goals of this conference is the creation of a universal climate… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after joining members of the American Energy Solution Group in a press conference to oppose the President’s job-killing energy policies and express concerns (see letter) with his upcoming trip to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen:
“Earlier this morning, President Obama… Read more »
Yesterday, Wall Street Journal blogger Keith Johnson wrote an interesting post about a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that was released. The poll highlights America’s declining support for cap-and-trade legislation.
Only 48% of the public would approve of a proposal that “would require companies to reduce greenhouse gas that cause global warming, even if it would mean higher utility bills… 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 »
