Press Releases
Ranking Member Huffman Decries Mass Layoffs at NOAA
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): “Today, over one thousand scientists and experts at NOAA received the news every federal worker has been dreading. Musk and his fake officials, the DOGE tech bros, have been rummaging through our most sensitive data without authority in violation o… Continue Reading
02.26.25
Reps. Huffman, Chu, and Salinas Call on Trump Administration to Reverse U.S. Forest Service Layoffs Amid Growing Wildfire Crisis
Washington, D.C. — House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (CA-02), Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28), and Rep. Andrea Salinas (OR-06) led 80 House Members in a letter today urging the Trump administration to reverse their decision to fire 3,400 federal workers from the U.S. Forest Service, which manages 193 million acres of public lands. These layoffs are part of a broader effort by President Trump and Elon Musk to dismantle the federal workforce, undermining the ability to respond t… Continue Reading
02.26.25
Huffman, Heinrich Demand Transparency on Trump Administration’s Plan to Roll Back Protections for Americans’ Public Lands After Interior Fails to Disclose it to the Public, Despite Key Deadline
Ranking Members of House and Senate Committees with jurisdiction over Department of Interior express concern that Administration is rolling back Americans’ public lands in secret one week after Department’s deadline to submit an “action plan” for implementing President Trump’s energy and public lands policy priorities Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member… Continue Reading
02.17.25
Huffman, Pallone, Hoyle, Castor Demand Answers on Trump-Musk Layoff Spree of Grid Workers, Risk to Electricity Supply
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), and Representatives Val Hoyle (D-Oreg.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) sent a letter demanding answers to the Trump administration’s indiscriminate firing of Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs) employees at Bonneville Power Administration, Southeastern Power Administration, Southwestern Power Administration, and Western A… Continue Reading
02.14.25
Ranking Member Huffman Blasts Mass Firings at Interior, Forest Service
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released a statement regarding the mass firings of as many as 5,700 employees across the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service. “This slash and burn approach to governing is an all-out attack on thousands of real, hardworking Americans who’ve dedicated their lives to keeping our air breathable, our water drinkable, and our national treasures protected from corporate greed. B… Continue Reading
02.12.25
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump Nominating Big Oil Insider to Lead Agency Responsible for Protecting Public Lands
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released a statement regarding the President’s nomination of Kathleen Sgamma—a lead architect of Project 2025—to lead the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management:"The fox is in the henhouse. As a lead architect of Project 2025, Ms. Sgamma designed the blueprint to hand over our sacred public lands to polluters. Now, after decades of working for the fossil fuel lobby to gut enviro… Continue Reading
02.12.25
Republicans Refuse Any Oversight of Musk and Trump During First Natural Resources Committee Mark Up
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee held their first mark up of the 119th Congress, where they reviewed - among other items - Republicans’ “119th Congress Authorization and Oversight Plan.” Democrats offered a series of amendments designed to use the Committee’s oversight authorities to meaningfully rein in Musk and Trump’s abuses of power. "Let me assure the American people: This lawlessness, this chaos and calamity, this total abdication of Congress's oversight … Continue Reading
02.10.25
Ranking Members Huffman, Hoyle Request Administration Leaders Meet with House Democrats to Answer Questions about DOGE Chaos at NOAA
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee Ranking Member Val Hoyle, and led 13 Members of Congress sent a letter to Vice Admiral Nancy Hann, acting NOAA Administrator, demanding answers on reports of President Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts to unlawfully dismantle NOAA. The signers include Members of Congress who represent congressional districts with facilities and employees of the National… Continue Reading
02.04.25
Ranking Members Huffman, Lofgren Sound the Alarm on Musk’s Invasion at Key Science Agency
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (CA-02) and Science, Space, and Technology Committee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) issued the following statement: “Elon Musk and his DOGE hackers are ransacking their way through the federal government, unlawfully gaining unfettered access to Americans’ private information and gutting programs people depend on. Now they have reached NOAA where they’re wreaking havoc on the scientific and regulat… Continue Reading
02.03.25
Huffman, Dexter Call on Natural Resources Committee Republicans to Investigate Trump’s Illegal Midnight Purge of Inspectors General
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Maxine Dexter (D-Oreg.) sent a letter to Committee Chair Bruce Westerman requesting a hearing to get to the bottom of Trump’s unprecedented and illegal late-night firing of inspectors general from various federal agencies, a move that was outlined in Trump’s Project 2025. “Protecting the independence of the inspectors general has be… Continue Reading
02.01.25
Huffman, Larsen Demand Answers on Trump’s Wasteful, Unscheduled Water Releases from Major CA Dams
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) sent a letter to Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum demanding an explanation for the Trump administration’s abrupt, unscheduled water releases from Terminus Dam and Schafer Dam in California’s Central Valley by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “A… Continue Reading
01.26.25
Ranking Member Huffman Slams Trump’s Executive Order to Upend California Water System, Once Again Conditioning Aid
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s executive order related to Southern California’s water supply:“President Trump has wasted no time in abusing his power by capitalizing on a crisis to advance the GOP’s longstanding goals of decimating environmental protections and putting special interests over the needs of everyday Americans. With the stroke of a pen, Trump has chosen to u… Continue Reading
01.25.25
Rebuking Late-night Purge of Inspectors General, House Democratic Ranking Members Demand President Trump Comply with the Law
WASHINGTON - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman joined Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Gerald E. Connolly and fellow House Committee Ranking Members in a letter to President Donald Trump condemning his attempted late-night purge of at least 12 independent inspectors general, which appears to have violated federal law designed to protect their work from political interference and intimidation. The Ranking Members wrote: “We write to … Continue Reading
01.25.25
Ranking Member Huffman Sounds the Alarm on Trump’s Illegal Midnight Purge of Federal Watchdogs
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) - founder of the Stop Project 2025 Task Force - issued the following statement on Trump’s late-night firing of inspectors general from various federal agencies and purge of federal employees responsible for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. These plans were included in Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda. “Wannabe dictator Donald Trump’s Friday Night Massacre of more than a dozen in… Continue Reading
01.23.25
Ranking Member Huffman Calls Out Republican Ploy to Gut Environmental Protections, Ignoring the Chance to Help Communities and Firefighters
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) voted against Republican’s H.R. 471, legislation designed to advance the GOP’s longstanding agenda of rolling back environmental laws while ignoring the climate crisis and failing to provide any relief to communitiesimpacted by wildfires or additional support for firefighters. Ranking Member Huffman took to the House Floor to speak in opposition to this flawed legislation. Recordings of his rema… Continue Reading
01.22.25
Ranking Member Huffman Welcomes New Slate of House Natural Resources Committee Democrats, Announces Top Positions
Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) today issued the following statement on welcoming the new House Natural Resources Committee Democrats for the 119th Congress. Huffman also announced the Committee’s top Democratic positions, as indicated in the list below. “I am excited to announce our incredible roster of Democratic members of the Natural Resources Committee for the 119th Congress. From the rugged coastlines of Maine to the desert canyons of … Continue Reading
01.21.25
Ranking Member Huffman, SEEC Condemn Trump’s Day One ‘Polluters Over People’ Executive Actions
Washington, D.C. - The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko and Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Suzanne Bonamici, Sean Casten, Mike Levin, and Chellie Pingree, and House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jared Huffman, released a letter in response to day one of Donald J. Trump’s presidency that saw him issue a slew of executive actions that benefit polluters at the expense of har… Continue Reading
01.20.25
Ranking Member Huffman Slams President Trump's Day One Executive Orders to Sacrifice Natural Resources to Billionaires
Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) today issued the following statement on President Trump’s Day One executive orders: “It has become clear within just the first few hours of the second Trump administration that his sights are set on an all-out assault on environmental protections, public lands, and the climate progress we’ve fought so hard to achieve. Our country is reeling from the disastrous impacts of the climate crisis. Instead of addres… Continue Reading
01.08.25
Huffman, Sen. Booker Commend Decision to Maintain Protections for Grizzlies
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) released statements on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) decision to maintain protections for grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The agency’s decision was based on the best available science, as well as ample stakeholder input from state, tribal, and conservation partners. “The science is clear — we need strong protections for grizzly be… Continue Reading
01.08.25
Ranking Member Huffman on Arctic Refuge Lease Sale: “It’s a Flop”
WASHINGTON - U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) today released the following statement on the statutorily mandated oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), which received no bids. The deadline to submit bids was Monday, Jan. 6. “The numbers speak for themselves — it’s a flop,” said Ranking Member Huffman. “I hope we can let this be the final say that no one, not even industry, thinks drilling in the Arctic National Wildlif… Continue Reading
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