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Washington, DC (June 28, 2013) – This week, U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce voted in favor of two bills, which provide for the expansion of offshore energy production by opening the areas with the greatest known reserves and requiring the Administration to submit new lease plans for development. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act, with Alaskan Congressman Don Young’s support. Read more »

Las Cruces, NM (June 28, 2013) – Today, U.S. Congressman Steve Pearce applauded the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on its decision to extend the comment period for the Draft Tri-County Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (RPM/EIS), which would have a major impact on land management in Doña Ana, Sierra, and Otero Counties. Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Cynthia Lummis (WY-AL) and Eric Swalwell (CA-15), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Science, Space, and Technology Energy Subcommittee sent a bipartisan invitation to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to visit their respective congressional districts. Read more »

Stressing that many of the fires burning in Colorado and in Western forests could have been prevented,today, Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) introduced a resolution on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to express the sense of the House that more needs to be done to manage federal forests and take action to immediately address the conditions that lead to catastrophic wildfires,… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today Congressman Kevin Cramer conducted a special leadership hour for the House Energy Action Team (HEAT) on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to the President’s newly announced climate regulation scheme. Cramer managed remarks made on the House floor during a full hour by seven members of Congress; Rep. Steve Daines (R-MT), Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-PA), Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY), Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA). Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Today Congressman Kevin Cramer strongly criticizedPresident Obama’s plans to restrict emissions from power plants as part of a larger climate regulation scheme. In a speech at Georgetown University today, Obama outlined a list of new energy regulations, which calls for an unprecedented cap on carbon emissions from all power plants generating electricity from fossil fuels, including those already in existence. A previous attempt to limit such emissions only for future power plants has been delayed by the EPA. Read more »

WASHINGTON D.C. – Congressman Cory Gardner (CO-04) released the following statement on the President’s speech about energy: Read more »

Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced it has backed away from its controversial study alleging groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing activities in Pavillion, Wyo. The study, released in December of 2011, was met with a firestorm of criticism and concerns, including the absence of peer review prior to the report’s release, a lack of data transparency, failure to adhere to information quality guidelines, and poor sampling and monitoring techniques that called into question the validity of the results. Read more »

WASHINGTON– On June 11, 2013 the Sierra Club held an event in Moab, Utah to promote the establishment of a new national monument known as Greater Canyonlands. The Sierra Club’s executive director Michael Brune stated before an audience in Moab that he is “100% certain” that a monument would be created unilaterally by President Obama through his use of the Antiquities Act. Read more »