Letters
Grijalva Letter to DOI on Discredited Job Impact Figures of SPR
Ranking Member Grijalva's letter to Jack Haugrud, Acting Secretary of the Interior, asking for information about why a DOI blog post cited wildly inaccurate figures suggesting that repeal of the Stream Protection Rule would save 7,000 jobs. That post, based on a flawed 2011 analysis, contradicted DOI's own estimate from late 2016 that leaving the rule in place would actually create 156 jobs.… Continue Reading
02.17.17
Grijalva Letter on NPS Employee Survey
Ranking Member Grijalva sent a letter to the NPS Acting Administrator thanking him for rolling out an employee survey.… Continue Reading
02.16.17
NCAI Resolution Opposing Border Wall Without Tribal Consultation
A resolution by the National Congress of American Indians opposing the construction of a border wall through Native American land without tribal approval, among other measures.… Continue Reading
02.14.17
Grijalva Letter to the Comptroller General of the U.S. on BLM's Online Auctions of Oil and Gas Leases
02.14.17
Grijalva Request to GAO on Hacking Vulnerabilities in Online Mineral Leasing
Ranking Member Grijalva's letter requesting a Government Accountability Office assessment of the hacking vulnerabilities of the Bureau of Land Management's online mineral leasing system, as well as other financial and operational aspects of the system.… Continue Reading
02.07.17
Letter Granting Easement to Dakota Access LLC
Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) received a letter from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army notifying him that the Army will move forward, as soon as tomorrow, with granting an easement to the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline.… Continue Reading
02.01.17
Letter to NOAA on Impact of the Federal Hiring Freeze
Ranking Member Grijalva sent a letter to NOAA's Acting Administrator on the impact of President Trump's hiring freeze at all executive agencies.… Continue Reading
02.01.17
Groups Oppose the BLM Methane Rule
A letter from 124 advocacy organizations opposed to the use of the Congressional Review Act to repeal environmental regulations. The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) urges members to vote NO on H.J. Res. 36, the Congressional Review Act "Resolution of Disapproval" of the Methane and Waste Prevention Rule.… Continue Reading
01.30.17
Oppose H.J. Res 36: Protect the BLM Methane Waste Rule
Ranking Member Grijalva urges his Democratic colleagues to join him in supporting the BLM Methane Waste Rule: Claim: "The natural gas industry has delivered a 21 percent reduction in methane emissions since 1990 at the same time as increasing production by 47 percent." Verdict: NOPE. Methane emissions from oil and gas fields are up 45% since 1990. Dear Colleague: The oil and gas industry has been making the above claim to argue that methane regulations, like the Bureau of Land Management's M… Continue Reading
01.25.17
Stop the Republican Pro-Waste Agenda!
Ranking Member Grijalva urges his Democratic colleagues to join him in supporting the BLM Methane Waste Rule: Dear Colleague: Whether you support increased drilling or not, we should all agree that oil and gas produced from public lands should be put to productive use, not simply frittered away. And yet, between 2009 and 2015, oil and gas companies on federal and Indian lands wasted roughly 462 billion cubic feet of natural gas - enough to supply about 6.2 million households for a year - throu… Continue Reading
01.24.17
Grijalva Pallone Letter to Speaker Ryan on Indian Health Care
01.24.17
Don’t Fall for the Mining Industry’s Alternative Facts
Ranking Member Grijalva urges his Democratic colleagues to join him in supporting the Stream Protection Rule: Dear Colleague: The fossil fuel industry will take a back seat to no one when it comes to wildly exaggerating the potential cost of any regulation that may cost them a little extra money. The latest, and particularly impressive example, is from opponents of the Stream Protection Rule, who are passing on the industry's claim that the rule would cost "78,000 mining jobs." Except that a… Continue Reading
01.24.17
Grijalva, Whitehouse Letter to Trump on NOAA's Appointment of Ken Haapala
Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter to President Donald Trump today, urging him to remove a notorious climate change denier from his landing team at the Department of Commerce (DOC), which includes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).… Continue Reading
01.09.17
Hearing Request on Stream Protection and Methane Rules Jan. 9
Ranking Member Grijalva, in this letter from Jan. 9, 2017, requests a hearing on the effectiveness of the Stream Protection Rule and Methane Waste Prevention Rule before the Republican majority unilaterally cancels them. Both rules have proven benefits for the American public and are opposed primarily by the oil, gas and mining industries.… Continue Reading
12.22.16
EPA Letter on Biscayne Bay Nuclear Plants Dec 22 2016
A Dec. 22, 2016, letter from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Army Corps of Engineers expressing strong concerns about those agencies' assessment that building two new nuclear reactors in "Hurricane Alley" on the South Florida coast would be safe, based on a lack of analysis of climate change and other risks.… Continue Reading
12.19.16
NPS Letter on Biscayne Bay Nuclear Plants Dec 19 2016
A Dec. 19, 2016, letter from the National Park Service to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Army Corps of Engineers expressing strong concerns about those agencies' assessment that building two new nuclear reactors in "Hurricane Alley" on the South Florida coast would be safe, based on a lack of analysis of climate change and other risks.… Continue Reading
12.12.16
Dec. 12 Letter to NOAA and Coast Guard on Human Trafficking
A letter from Ranking Member Grijalva and Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and John Garamendi (D-Calif.) to the U.S. Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on the need to crack down on human trafficking in the Hawaiian fishing industry.… Continue Reading
12.07.16
Dec. 7 Letter to Secretary Jewell on Maintaining Red Wolf Recovery Efforts
A Dec. 7, 2016, letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on the need to maintain successful red wolf recovery program rather than bowing to pressure from a small number of vocal landowners to abandon recovery efforts.… Continue Reading
11.14.16
Letter to President Obama on the Dakota Access Pipeline
Ranking Member Raúl Grijalva, Rep. Jared Huffman along with 21 members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama to urge him to take the necessary steps to protect the rights and civil liberties of the Standing Rock Tribe peacefully protesting against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.… Continue Reading
10.20.16
Grijalva Democratic Letter to EPA on Fracking Report and Drinking Water Oct. 20
A letter from 49 House Democrats, led by Ranking Member Grijalva, to the Environmental Protection Agency urging that the final version of a long-awaited, congressionally mandated report on fracking's risks to drinking water reflect the best available science and not include unsupported phrases from a draft version downplaying fracking's environmental risks.… Continue Reading