Letter to Congressional Leaders Regarding Forest Fire Money Being Spent in Washington, D.C. Read more »

House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s announcement that only 17 out of 77 parcels of land in Utah will be leased for oil and gas production: “With unemployment near 10 percent, it’s astounding that the Obama Administration is once again blocking American energy… Read more »

Republican Views on H.R. 2499, the "Puerto Rico Democracy Act" Read more »

Republican Views on H.R. 2806, "to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and North Casades National Park in order to allow the rebuilding of a road outside of the floodplain while ensuring that there is no net loss of acreage to the Park or the Wilderness" Read more »

Click here to watch Highlights: The Obama Administration’s Hypocrisy on All-of-the-Above Energy Development “After Americans experienced four dollar gasoline last summer, there was a larger understanding that we need to utilize the resources we have here within our country -- namely, the Outer Continental Shelf and federal lands and in Alaska. When this administration came in, the… Read more »

One year later, GOP pushes federal leasing plans 10/2/2009 Ben Geman, E&E News Republicans and oil industry groups are using the one year mark of last year's offshore drilling ban expiration to push for wider leasing in federal waters, alleging the Obama administration is delaying access to potentially large U.S. reserves. Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.), the ranking member of the… 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 »

Letter to Secretary Salazar Regarding Elimination of the Royalty In Kind Program Read more »

Today, House Natural Resources Ranking Member Doc Hastings joined the entire Utah Congressional delegation in opposing the America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009 (H.R. 1925) – a bill that would lock up 9.5 million acres of land in Utah and block energy development, job creation and public land access.  Of the 146 cosponsors of the bill, not a single one is from the state of… Read more »

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) and Ranking Member Doc Hastings (R-WA) today introduced bipartisan legislation to provide an extended time frame to complete the construction of an underground visitor and education center near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Memorial) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. “The black granite that comprises the Vietnam… Read more »