After more than a year of delays, Secretary of the Interior quietly announced last week that the Obama Administration will discard the 2010-2015 lease plan for new development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and wait until 2012 to put a new plan in the place. This means that the Administration’s initial six-month delay has turned into a three-year moratorium on new offshore drilling.… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after today’s unemployment numbers showed 36,000 jobs were lost in the month of February:
“The American people have grown weary of waiting for this Administration to enact policies that will actually help create jobs. It’s been over a year since the nearly one trillion dollar stimulus… Read more »
At the last minute, the Democrat Majority on the House Natural Resources Committee unexpectedly and suddenly canceled tomorrow’s Energy and Minerals Subcommittee oversight hearing on the President's Fiscal Year 2011 budget requests.
The leaders of federal agencies that oversee offshore and onshore energy and mineral production on federal lands, including Minerals Management Service, the… Read more »
On Thursday, March 4, 2009, the House Natural Resources Energy and Minerals Subcommittee will hold an oversight hearing on the President's Fiscal Year 2011 budget requests. The Administration’s budget establishes a dangerous national energy policy that will increase energy costs for American families and businesses, hinder American energy production and send American jobs overseas. Taken… Read more »
Graph Credit: Mark J. Perry
Data released yesterday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows U.S. natural gas production set another record in 2009, marking a 12.2% increase since 2006, which makes America the world’s No. 1 producer of natural gas. Thanks to advances in technologies and the use of safe drilling techniques such as hydrological fracturing, U.S. reserves… Read more »
Obama's budget reveals true agenda on energy
By Rep. Doc Hastings
Washington Times
March 3, 2010
For the past two years, President Obama has given Americans mixed signals regarding his position on offshore energy production.
Sen. Obama opposed it. Candidate Obama changed his mind when gas prices soared. President Obama has stalled efforts to expand it, but then seemingly promoted… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after co-sponsoring Republican Leadership’s Resolution of Disapproval to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases.
“The EPA has seriously overstepped its regulatory authority and placed millions of American jobs at risk… Read more »
Hawaiian Secession
2/27/2010
Wall Street Journal
Editorial
As farewell presents go, few lawmakers get to redistribute an entire state's wealth based on race. That was the send-off for Representative Neil Abercrombie, who is retiring this week to run for Governor of Hawaii. For his campaign literature, he'll take the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, which was whooped… Read more »
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04); National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Ranking Member Rob Bishop (UT-01); and 14 Members of Congress sent a letter today to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar requesting further information related to an internal DOI document that revealed the Administration is considering designating numerous new… Read more »
