Media
Press Releases
September 19, 2025Natural Resources Democrats Discuss Wildland Firefighter Health, Trump’s Failures to Protect Wildland Firefighters at Issues Forum
— Yesterday, Ranking Members Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) convened an issues forum titled “The Cost of Courage: How Our Wildland Firefighters Have Been Left Behind.” The Members and panelists discussed how Trump administration rollbacks and chronic underfunding have deepened a health crisis for wildland firefighters, halting cancer research, blocking safety protections, and abandoning crews on the frontlines of increasingly devastating wildfires. “Failing to warn firefig… Continue Reading
September 19, 2025
Ranking Member Huffman Blasts Republicans for Silence on Racist Censorship by Trump Admin, Demands Answers from Park Service
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Huffman (D-Calif.) berated Committee Republicans for their silence on the Trump administration’s orders to erase history from national parks by removing exhibits about slavery. Huffman also grilled Associate Director of Park Planning, Facilities, and Lands at the National Park Service Michael Caldwell on the order. .@RepHuffman: Trump just ordered the Park Service to remove signs and exhibits relating to slavery. What the hell is going on he… Continue Reading
September 18, 2025
Democrats Vote to Prevent Massive Giveaway of American Resources to Foreign Adversaries; Republicans Reject Protections
Yesterday, the House Natural Resources Committee Republicans voted to reject an amendment offered by Rep. Teresa Leger-Fernandez that would have blocked projects owned by Foreign Entities of Concern from getting priority permitting treatment on public lands. All Republicans present voted against the amendment, while all Democrats present voted for it. Ultimately, the committee passed—without these important protections—H.R. 4090, a Republican bill that would create a regulatory system for the mi… Continue Reading
Media Advisories
April 02, 2025House Natural Resources Committee Leaders to Host Issues Forum on Trump-Musk Attacks Targeting NOAA
- TODAY at 1 p.m. ET, House Natural Resources Committee leaders will host an issues forum to discuss the escalating attacks on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) by the Trump administration and Elon Musk's DOGE. The attacks jeopardize everything from disaster warnings and public safety to the stability of coastal economies and America’s ability to respond to the climate crisis. WHO MEMBERSRep. Seth MagazinerRep. Jared Huffman, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Memb… Continue Reading
September 13, 2024
Committee Democrats to Host Roundtable on Holding Big Oil Accountable
*** DUE TO OPPOSITION FROM THE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE MAJORITY, THE ROUNDTABLE HAS BEEN MOVED TO HC-6 IN THE CAPITOL. IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE WILL BE VERY LIMITED AND RSVPS ARE REQUIRED. THE EVENT WILL ALSO BE LIVESTREAMED. PLEASE SEE THE UPDATED ADVISORY BELOW. *** WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. ET, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Democrats will host a roundtable discussion with expert panelists titled, “Holding Big Oil Accountable for Extortion, Collusion, … Continue Reading
February 06, 2024
TODAY: Ranking Member Grijalva to Join Senator Markey, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez at Press Conference on 5-Year Anniversary of Green New Deal Resolution
(February 6, 2024) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) will hold a press conference with youth, labor, environmental justice, and public health leaders on TODAY, Tuesday, February 6th at 12:00 PM to celebrate the five-year anniversary of the introduction of the Green New Deal resolution. The Green New Deal galvanized a climate action movement and catapulted the issue of climate and environmental justice to the top of the national agenda. Senato… Continue Reading
Opinion Pieces
March 22, 2024As Big Oil’s Mess in Our Oceans Grows, Their Bonding Requirements Should Too
Big Oil uses our ocean waters and coastlines as their own personal junkyard. For decades, oil and gas companies have been leaving behind their old, out-of-use equipment and infrastructure, forcing unnecessary risk and cleanup costs on American taxpayers. There’s no question it’s a problem, but until now, we didn’t know just how bad the problem was. At our request, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan government watchdog, recently took a closer look at the issue, and the fin… Continue Reading
May 12, 2023
Gutting the National Environmental Policy Act is a Political Vendetta, Not Permitting Reform
At the end of March, House Republicans passed H.R. 1, a shameless giveaway of handouts and loopholes to the oil, gas, and mining industries, fittingly dubbed the Polluters Over People Act. While oil companies’ record-breaking profits make it clear that they’re not an industry under duress, Republicans continue to push legislation to gut our most fundamental environmental and public health laws, namely the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to line industry pockets. But … Continue Reading
January 11, 2023
House Dems fight for Arizonans. Republicans fight each other.
Making history isn’t always a good thing. Last week, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives seemed determined to prove that point. For the first time in more than a century, the Republican-controlled House failed not once, not twice, but 14 times to take the most basic first step of a new Congress—electing a Speaker of the House. The Republican party’s infighting has inspired entertaining social media memes, but if you’re hoping for them to do anything more tha… Continue Reading
Letters
April 18, 2024Prior to Deepwater Horizon Anniversary, Top Committee Democrats Urge Full Environmental Review of Offshore Oil & Gas Drilling
Prior to the 14th anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), and Committee Vice Ranking Member Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.) today sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) urging the agency to immedia… Continue Reading
March 11, 2024
Grijalva, Huffman Co-Lead Bipartisan Letter Urging Whole-of-Government Approach to IUU Fishing, Forced Labor
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) today sent a bipartisan letter signed by a total of 26 Members to President Joe Biden urging the administration to use its existing authorities, including the new authorities that Congress provided in the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to implement a whole-of-government approach to combating illegal, unreported, and … Continue Reading
December 07, 2023
Ranking Members Grijalva and Krishnamoorthi Support Actions to Combat Illegal Trade of Highly Endangered Pangolins in People’s Republic of China, Including Sanctions
House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) today sent a letter to President Joe Biden commending the administration’s actions to take a stand against the illegal trade of pangolins and pangolin products in the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC). READ the full letter to President Biden. As the lawmakers po… Continue Reading
Reports
September 14, 2022Hearing Report: The Role of Public Relations Firms in Preventing Action on Climate Change
The Hearing Report presents select findings and redacted documents from the Committee's investigation into PR firms' work with fossil fuel companies. For decades, the fossil fuel industry denied or downplayed climate change and its role in causing it. As climate denial has become less accepted by the general public, the industry has worked with PR firms to execute subtler and more sophisticated campaigns to mislead the public and block climate change policy proposals. The Hearing Report details … Continue Reading
December 18, 2020
Repairing the Trump Administration's Damage to US Indigenous Communities and Charting a Better Way Forward
October 28, 2020
Dirty Deals: Four Years of the Trump Administration Putting Polluter Profits Over People
This report outlines the major damage the Trump administration has inflicted on the environment, economy, and energy supply of the United States and takes a closer look at the tactics they've used to perpetrate that destruction. Special attention is given to the federal agencies under the Committee's jurisdiction, including the Department of the Interior (DOI), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The report is not an exhaustive list of … Continue Reading
Videos
September 19, 2025The Cost of Courage: How Our Wildland Firefighters Have Been Left Behind
September 18, 2025
Federal Lands Legislative Hearing | September 18, 2025
September 17, 2025
Full Committee Markup | September 17, 2025
September 17, 2025