Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) and Western Caucus Chairman Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) issued the following statement:
“Our prayers are with the victims of the dangerous fires today in California. We must aggressively increase the pace and scale of our forest management to prevent… Read more »
Today the U.S. Fish and Wildife Service (USFWS) announced their refusal to delist grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone (GYE) and Northern Continental Divide (NCDE) ecosystems and two related proposals. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response:
"The only reasonable announcement by the USFWS today… Read more »
Today, U.S. President Joe Biden announced he will use the Antiquities Act of 1906 to designate two new national monuments totaling approximately one million acres of land in California. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response:
"In the waning days of his failed administration, President Biden is again bending to the… Read more »
Today, President Joe Biden announced a prohibition on oil and gas development in more than 600 million acres of federal waters along the Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the northern Bering Sea. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response:
"While the federal deficit… Read more »
Last week, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) sent five letters to outgoing Biden administration agency officials to ensure they comply with all record retention requirements and avoid last-minute partisan rulemaking in advance of the incoming Trump administration. The letters were sent to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the U.S. Forest… Read more »
Last night, the D.C. Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Campus Revitalization Act passed the Senate with unanimous support. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response:
"In the final few hours of the 118th congress, the American taxpayer scored one more win with the passage of this legislation. Now the National Park… Read more »
This week, House Committee on Natural Resource Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) led a letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on issues related to investigations into the alleged misconduct at Haskell Indian Nations University… Read more »
Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development Chairman Burgess Owens (R-Utah) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) led a letter to Assistant Secretary of the Bureau… Read more »
Last week, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) Howard Cantor requesting information about the office's revenue collection activities. In part, the members wrote:
"There are concerns that ONRR is abusing its… Read more »
Today, House Committee on Natural Resource Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Director Martha Willams on the Chinese Communist Party’s… Read more »
