Press Releases
Huffman, Pallone, Padilla, Booker Demand Trump Reverse Plan to Open New Offshore Oil and Gas Leases
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02) and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.-06), along with U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), led over 100 lawmakers in demanding President Trump and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum immediately cease any plans to open new offshore oil and gas leases in U.S. federal waters off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in the Arctic Ocean and… Continue Reading
10.28.25
Huffman, Ansari Demand Answers as Trump Administration Shuts Down SNAP and Paychecks, Keeps Big Oil Flush with Cash
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) demanded answers from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on why their agencies have prioritized checking off the wish lists of oil, timber, and mining companies during the ongoing Republican government shutdown while halting critical public safety, wildfire prevention, and disaster… Continue Reading
10.23.25
Huffman Denounces Trump’s Effort to Hand Over U.S. Coasts to Big Oil Amid Shutdown
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement following reporting that the Trump administration is advancing plans to open nearly all federal waters along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and sensitive areas off the coast of Alaska and Florida to new oil and gas leases despite the ongoing Republican government shutdown: "While government workers across the country are furloughed and Americans are worrying about how much their… Continue Reading
10.23.25
Ranking Member Huffman: Trump’s “Alaska Day” Blitz Is a Full-Scale Giveaway to Big Oil and Mining
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced a coordinated series of Trump administration actions to open the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain to drilling and strip long-standing protections from Alaska’s most ecologically sensitive and culturally significant lands and waters: “Trump just declared open season on Alaska’s public lands. In just a few weeks, hi… Continue Reading
10.23.25
Ranking Members Jared Huffman, Robert Garcia, Rep. Ansari Demand Transparency on White House Ballroom Construction During Shutdown
Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Natural Resources, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) demanded answers from President Donald J. Trump regarding the reported construction of a new $250 million ballroom at the White House complex during the ongoing government shutdown.The lawmakers warn that the project — undertaken “without public disclosur… Continue Reading
10.07.25
Ranking Member Huffman Blasts Trump for Handing Over Alaskan Wilderness to Polluters
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Ranking Member Jared Huffman issued a statement blasting President Trump’s decision to permit the Ambler Road Project: “We’re in the middle of another Republican shutdown where American families, workers, and small business are suffering. Instead of working with Democrats to reopen the government and save health care, Trump is rushing to give big polluters everything they want. Last week it was cancelling billions of dollars in clean energy projects, … Continue Reading
10.02.25
Huffman Responds to Trump, Vought Pulling the Plug on Billions in Investments in Clean Energy Across the Country
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued a statement slamming President Trump and Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought for canceling $8 billion in lawfully approved clean energy projects across the country: “The Republican shutdown is already crushing American workers, families, and small businesses. Now Trump and his hatchet man Russ Vought are wiping out America's future to reward their oil baron donors and lock families into… Continue Reading
09.24.25
Huffman, Ansari Demand Answers on Trump’s Dangerous U.S. Park Police Policies
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and U.S. Park Police (USPP) Chief Scott Brecht demanding a full briefing on sweeping new USPP policies that put lives at risk and turn the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency into a tool for Donald Trump’s political agenda.The lawmakers highlight that in the p… Continue Reading
09.22.25
Huffman Calls on Admin to Protect Roadless Rule, Allow for Adequate Community Input
Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz to oppose repealing the Roadless Rule and object to the mere 21-day public comment period for the upcoming decision.This truncated comment period is the latest in the Trump administration’s pattern of silencing public input on decisions that impact America’s public lands and the communities that s… Continue Reading
09.19.25
Natural Resources Democrats Discuss Wildland Firefighter Health, Trump’s Failures to Protect Wildland Firefighters at Issues Forum
Washington, D.C. — 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. “Failin… Continue Reading
09.19.25
Ranking Member Huffman Blasts Republicans for Silence on Racist Censorship by Trump Admin, Demands Answers from Park Service
Washington, D.C. - 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 … Continue Reading
09.18.25
Democrats Vote to Prevent Massive Giveaway of American Resources to Foreign Adversaries; Republicans Reject Protections
Washington, D.C. - 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 regulator… Continue Reading
09.11.25
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump’s Continued Attack on Public Lands
Washington, D.C. — Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced plans to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Public Lands Rule: “Rescinding the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule is the latest move in Trump’s calculated campaign to dismantle protections for America’s public lands. Days ago, his Interior Department quietly issued another order making it harder for BLM to bu… Continue Reading
09.10.25
Natural Resources Democrats Slam GOP Attempts to Gut Environmental Protections and Silence Communities Under Guise of Permitting Reform
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Huffman pushed back against Republicans’ so-called SPEED Act, a sweeping bill that would gut core provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and rig the rules to fast-track polluter projects and silence community voices. Excerpts and Highlights from Ranking Member Huffman’s Opening Remarks:“Today, we have three bills on the agenda relating to the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA. Two of them, H.R. 573 and H.R. 4503, aim to enh… Continue Reading
09.09.25
Following Damning Reporting, Huffman, Dexter, Neguse Lead Oversight Push to Safeguard Wildland Firefighters
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Jared Huffman (CA-02), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (OR-03), the Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, and Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02), the Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands, led lawmakers in an oversight effort to address the federal government’s failure to protect wildland firefighter health. The lawmak… Continue Reading
09.03.25
Huffman, Dexter Demand Records on Interior Official’s Conflicts of Interest
Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) are demanding answers from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum about Tyler Hassen, the outgoing Principal Deputy Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget, citing his sweeping powers at the Department of the Interior and deep ties to industries he regulated. In their letter, Huffman and Dexter detail how Hassen “reviews ‘every s… Continue Reading
09.02.25
Huffman Raises Alarm Over USDA Plan to Gut Forest Service Research and Regional Offices
Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins raising serious concerns about the Department’s July 24, 2025 proposal to reorganize the U.S. Forest Service by phasing out its nine Regional Offices and consolidating its stand-alone Research Stations into a single location in Fort Collins, Colorado.“I support efforts to modernize the Forest Service so it better serves the American people and can address t… Continue Reading
08.29.25
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump’s Clean Energy Decimation
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s latest attack on clean energy: “This is a new level of idiocracy, where the Trump administration is trying to destroy an entire sector of clean energy, kill thousands of good paying jobs, and drive up electricity prices for American consumers. “Surrendering the future to China by dragging America back to dirty, climate-wrecking fossil fuel dependency while most of th… Continue Reading
08.27.25
Huffman Statement on Trump’s Roadless Rule Rollback and Taxpayer-Funded Lumber Giveaway to China
Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the next step in its rule-making process to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule by opening a public comment period from this Friday to September 19 — less than 30 days.“Secretary Rollins is steamrolling ahead with Trump’s plan to deliver America’s last wild forests to corporate polluters. Forcing a rollback with only a matter of d… Continue Reading
08.26.25
Huffman, Markey Lead Colleagues in Opposing Reckless Offshore Drilling Plan
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Vice Ranking Member Sarah Elfreth (D-Md.), and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) wrote to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management urging the agency to reject BP’s proposed Kaskida project in the Gulf of Mexico.“This ultra-deepwater project represents an unacceptable threat to Gulf communities, ecosystems, and the climate… Continue Reading
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