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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Department of the Interior, after years of delay, finally approved nearly 4,000 natural gas wells near Vernal, Utah. Read more »

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Co-Chair of the Congressional Hydropower Caucus, will speak in support of her forthcoming bill, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2012, at an Energy & Power Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, May 9 Read more »

WASHINGTON–House Natural Resources National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following response to the Department of Interior’s release of new regulations pertaining to hydraulic fracking on public lands. Read more »

The Obama Administration today announced new regulations on hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands. Tribal leaders, State officials and energy job creators have already testified at numerous Natural Resources Committee hearings explaining how new federal regulations will cost jobs, slow energy production and cause economic harm. Read more »

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the new regulations issued today by the Department of the Interior on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands. Read more »

Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05) chaired a House Natural Resources subcommittee oversight hearing today in Colorado Springs. Read more »

Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05) is chairing a House Natural Resources subcommittee oversight hearing today in Colorado Springs at the Pikes Peak Regional Building. Read more »

Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Chairman of the House Natural Resources Energy and Minerals Subcommittee, today held a field hearing in Denver on proposed federal regulations for hydraulic fracturing. Read more »

WASHINGTON – The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Notre Dame Law School published separate studies on the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) this week that show funds intended for the nation’s veterans, seniors and small businesses are flowing to environmental groups contrary to Congressional intent. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Rep. Kristi Noem today announced that she has helped introduce H.R. 4965, bipartisan legislation to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) from over-stepping their authority to regulate water in South Dakota and the United States. Read more »