Press Releases
Ranking Member Huffman Blasts GOP’s Big Tech Handout
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) took to the House Floor to oppose Republicans’ “Undersea Cable Protection Act of 2025,” which hands tech giants like Meta and Amazon special exemptions and millions of dollars in savings to run cables through America’s National Marine Sanctuaries for free, skipping safety checks and ignoring the Tribes and communities who depend on these protected waters. ?? Republicans just gave Big Tech a MAS… Continue Reading
02.11.26
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on NOAA’s Proposed Regulatory Loopholes
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced four proposed Exempted Fishing Permits that would allow states to manage an entire fishery sector without adhering to the fundamental sustainability standards for fishery management established under the world's gold standard fishery management law, the Magnuson-Stevens Act: “Our fisheries s… Continue Reading
02.11.26
Ranking Member Huffman Condemns Trump Torching Endangerment Finding as Attack on Public Health and Clean Air to Serve Big Oil Donors
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after the Trump administration announced it would finalize the repeal of the EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding this week, the scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and wellbeing:"While families are losing their homes to wildfires, burying loved ones after catastrophic storms, and watching their insurance premiums explode, the T… Continue Reading
02.10.26
Ranking Member Huffman Blasts Whitewashing & Corruption Surrounding America’s 250th Birthday
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Democrats called out Republicans for allowing Trump to hijack America’s 250th Birthday celebration to sell access, hide his donors, and rewrite history — turning the country’s founding anniversary into a party exclusively for billionaires and a platform for Christian Nationalism Ranking Member Huffman opened the hearing by laying out a clear pattern… Continue Reading
02.04.26
Ranking Member Huffman Slams GOP Bill That Hands Mining Industry Power to Gut Its Own Regulations
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) took to the House Floor to oppose H.R. 4090, the so-called Critical Minerals Dominance Act, calling out the bill for giving the mining industry the power to rewrite its own rules while doing nothing to secure American supply chains. “I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 4090, a bill that hands the mining industry, amazingly, the power to gut its own regulations while doing nothing to secure Amer… Continue Reading
02.02.26
Ranking Members Huffman, Garcia, Heinrich Demand Answers on Trump Administration's Taxpayer-Funded Mining Spending Spree
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) sent letters to the Secretaries of Defense, Energy, Commerce, and Interior Departments demanding documents and a briefing on the Trump administration's unprecedented acquisition of equity stakes in multiple mining and mineral compa… Continue Reading
01.23.26
Committee Democrats Demand Answers on Reports of NPS Scrubbing Slavery History, Climate Facts
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) led fellow Committee Democrats in demanding answers from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum about disturbing reports that the National Park Service is removing exhibits about slavery and climate change from America's national parks. The letter comes as NPS crews removed the "Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation" exhibit from the President's House Site at Independence National Historical Park i… Continue Reading
01.21.26
Ranking Member Huffman Slams Backdoor Attempt to Open Boundary Waters to Toxic Mining
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) spoke on the House Floor against H.J. Res. 140, a Congressional Review Act resolution that would overturn protections for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota and allow a Chilean mining company with ties to China to pursue a sulfide-ore copper mine near its headwaters. “Mr. Speaker, the Boundary Waters draw more visitors than any other wilderness in the country. Millions of American… Continue Reading
01.20.26
Committee Democrats Uncover Potential Abuse of Power Scheme by High-Ranking Trump Official, Demand Independent Investigation
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) called on the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Office of Inspector General to investigate Associate Deputy Secretary Karen Budd-Falen for potential conflicts of interest, ethics violations, and self-dealing related to her family's multi-million-dollar financial stake in a Nevada lithium mine.Last November, Huffma… Continue Reading
01.16.26
Huffman, Dingell, Beyer Lead Over 80 Congressional Democrats Demanding Trump Withdraw Attack on Endangered Species Act
Washington, D.C. - Today, 87 Congressional Democrats demanded the Trump administration withdraw four proposed rules that would blow massive holes in the Endangered Species Act — the law that has saved 99 percent of listed species from extinction. In a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and ESA Caucus Co-Chairs Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and Rep. Don Beyer (D-Virg.) warned the chan… Continue Reading
01.15.26
Ranking Members Demand Trump Admin Answer for Killing Jobs, Cutting Off Affordable Energy with Arbitrary Halt to Offshore Wind Projects
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), U.S. House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and U.S. House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanding a classified briefing on the administration’s sudden halt of al… Continue Reading
01.08.26
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on House Republicans Voting to Uphold Trump's Retaliation
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after House Republicans killed two of their own party's bills and voted to uphold President Trump's vetoes of two bipartisan bills that had passed both chambers unanimously: "Congratulations to House Republicans on completing their transformation of the United States Congress into the American Duma. They just proved they'd rather be Trump's doormats than do thei… Continue Reading
01.08.26
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on FY26 Appropriations Minibus
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after the House passed a bipartisan spending package that protects America's public lands from the Trump administration's most extreme proposals and delivers $5.4 million in projects for California's North Coast: "President Trump came into this budget demanding we zero out clean energy spending, gut the Park Service by over a billion dollars, and clear the way for… Continue Reading
01.07.26
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump’s Withdrawal from International Climate Agreements
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum withdrawing the United States from 66 international organizations, including from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change: “This is climate denial as foreign policy. The same ‘oil over all’ mentality driving regime change in Venezuela to plunder another country’s resources is what’s behind torching inter… Continue Reading
12.18.25
Republicans Pass Christmas Gifts for Billionaire Polluters, Leave Hardworking Americans in the Cold Republicans Pass Christmas Gifts for Billionaire Polluters, Leave Hardworking Americans in the Cold
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) took to the House Floor and slammed Republicans for prioritizing handouts for corporate polluters and special interest groups instead of doing anything to address rising costs or the impending affordable health care cliff. “This is our last day in session before Republicans close up shop and send everyone home for a couple of weeks. The majority could be using this time to do something - provi… Continue Reading
12.17.25
Huffman Reintroduces Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) reintroduced his Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act, which would increase fire resilience, restore forests and fish habitat, rehabilitate lands impaired by illegal marijuana growing operations, increase recreation opportunities through new trails and visitor centers, and permanently protect many of northwest California’s most spectacular wild places and pristine streams. “California has some of t… Continue Reading
12.17.25
Committee Republicans’ Final Markup of 2025 Caps Off a Year of Doing Nothing to Help the American People
Washington, D.C. - Today, during the final markup of 2025, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Huffman called out Republicans for doing nothing over the past year but push handouts for billionaire polluters, roll over for the Trump administration, and utterly fail to improve the state of our natural resources or the lives of the American people. Ranking Member Huffman speaks during committee markup. (December 17, 2025) “This year has been marked by some of the most egregious abu… Continue Reading
12.15.25
Natural Resources Democrats Expose How Oil Companies Slashed Their Royalty Payments by $2.7 Billion Using Timing Loophole
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report exposing how oil and gas companies have exploited a timing loophole to cheat American taxpayers out of as much as $2.7 billion in royalty payments over the past decade.The watchdog report, requested by former Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), confirms that companies are gaming the system to avoid paying their fair share for drilling on lands and waters that belong t… Continue Reading
12.12.25
House Natural Resources Committee Dems Uncover Puerto Rico Tax Break for Ultra-Rich Could Cost American Taxpayers Millions
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Reps. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) released a Government Accountability Office report exposing how special tax breaks for the wealthy are costing the rest of American taxpayers “hundreds of millions of dollars per year” with little evidence they’re delivering economic benefits to the people of Puerto Rico. "While families across Puerto Rico struggle to make ends meet,… Continue Reading
12.09.25
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Ruling Declaring Trump’s Attacks on Clean Energy Illegal
Washington, D.C. -?Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement following the news that President Donald Trump’s executive order directing government agencies to halt approving new wind energy projects was ruled illegal by a U.S. District Court judge: “The courts have officially ruled what we’ve known all along: Donald Trump’s war on clean energy is flat out illegal.“Hardworking Americans are facing an affordability crisis, and Trump’s unhinged attacks on chea… Continue Reading
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