Press Releases
Ranking Members Huffman and Raskin Slam Trump Administration’s Taxpayer-Funded Billion-Dollar Giveaway at the Expense of Clean Energy
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding answers on the Trump administration’s scheme to kill clean, affordable offshore wind energy for more oil and gas development. The lawmakers said the deal “directly undercuts American energy security by ending offshore wind… Continue Reading
03.31.26
Ranking Member Huffman Blasts Trump Cabinet’s Illegal Gutting of Endangered Species Protections to Benefit 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's Endangered Species Committee voted to exempt all oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from Endangered Species Act protections: "The grotesque pay-to-play pageantry that unfolded today was, thankfully, so clearly illegal that it will not stand. But that should not temper the disgust and outrage of every American who cares about… Continue Reading
03.30.26
Ranking Member Huffman Statement After Federal Court Strikes Down Trump's Illegal Attacks on America’s Endangered Species
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after a federal court struck down a series of Trump administration rollbacks that weakened the Endangered Species Act, restoring the law to its pre-Trump status: "The Endangered Species Act kept the bald eagle, the manatee, and the gray wolf from disappearing forever, and today a federal court restored it to full strength after striking down Donald Trump's illegal attempts to gut it. Americans lov… Continue Reading
03.25.26
Natural Resources Democrats Force Vote to Subpoena Donald Trump Jr. Over $670 Million Taxpayer-Funded Deal
Washington, D.C. - At today's Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on the critical minerals supply chain, Subcommittee Ranking Member Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) forced a vote to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. to testify under oath about his financial stake in Vulcan Elements and how he potentially benefited from insider influence after his father, President Trump, funneled over $670 million taxpayer dollars into the company. Vulcan Elements, a rare earth startup, received a $620 million Pent… Continue Reading
03.19.26
Huffman, 52 House Democrats Call on Appropriators to Defund Trump's Censorship of American History at National Parks
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) led 52 other House Democrats in calling on House appropriators to block funding for Secretarial Order 3431, the Trump administration directive that has led to the removal of historical exhibits and educational materials about slavery, Indigenous peoples, and climate change from national parks and public lands across America. In a letter to Chair Mike Simpson and Ranking Member Chellie Pingree of the House Appropriations Subcommit… Continue Reading
03.18.26
Ranking Member Huffman Opposes GOP Bill to Block Lead Protections on Public Lands: "Our Public Lands Belong to the American People, Not the NRA"
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) took to the House Floor to oppose H.R. 556, Republican and NRA-backed legislation that would block federal land managers from restricting lead ammunition and fishing tackle on public lands and waters, even when science shows lead is killing wildlife. “We are on day 19 of Trump's illegal war of choice with Iran. 13 American service members so far are dead, 200 more are wounded. Gas prices have s… Continue Reading
03.18.26
Huffman Blasts $40 Million in Taxpayer Funds for Illegal Shasta Dam Raise
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after the Department of the Interior announced $40 million in taxpayer funds for planning and preconstruction activities to raise Shasta Dam. “The proposal to raise Shasta Dam is a stubbornly unlawful, wasteful, and destructive boondoggle that refuses to die, and it is past time we bury it for good. It is illegal under California law. Raising Shasta Dam has been blocked by state courts, opposed by C… Continue Reading
03.16.26
Huffman Statement on Trump Handing Sacred Apache Land to Foreign Mining Giants in $150 Billion Giveaway
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after President Trump transferred Oak Flat, a National Historic Site sacred to multiple Apache tribes, to multinational mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP: “Foreign mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP got exactly what they paid for with this administration. President Trump handed them a sacred Apache site to destroy, greenlighted a deal that sends American copper to China, and the American people won’t see … Continue Reading
03.09.26
Huffman, King Lead Amicus Brief Opposing Trump's Illegal Monument Scheme
Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), and Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.), along with Senators Angus King (I-Maine), Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), filed an amicus brief in federal court opposing President Trump's plan to erect a 250-foot "Independence Arch" on federal parkland in Washington, D.C., arguing the project blatantly violates laws requiring congressional authorization for new monuments. The case co… Continue Reading
03.05.26
Natural Resources Democrats Secure Six Bipartisan Geothermal Bills, Save Our Sequoias Framework in Committee Markup
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Democrats advanced a bipartisan package of geothermal energy bills and a negotiated framework to protect California's giant sequoia groves during a full committee markup. Six geothermal bills passed by unanimous consent after Democrats successfully negotiated to maintain strong environmental standards and deliver real benefits to tribes, taxpayers, and communities. "At a time when we are divided on so many things, when there's so much … Continue Reading
03.05.26
Ranking Member Huffman Challenges Trump's East Wing Demolition, Demands Transparency on Donor Influence
Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Acting National Park Service Director Jessica Bowron opposing the destruction of the White House East Wing, the proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, and any further modifications to President's Park without congressional consent. The letter was sent ahead of today's National Capital Planning Commission meeting on the White House Modernization Project. As the Commission moves toward final approval, Huffman warns that the… Continue Reading
03.03.26
Huffman, Heinrich, Markey Lead 60 Lawmakers in Condemning Trump’s Plans to Sell Off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) led 60 members in the House and Senate in condemning the Trump administration’s plans to auction off sacred and sensitive lands within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas companies. The administration’s push comes despite two failed lease sales that exposed drillin… Continue Reading
03.02.26
Committee Democrats Probe New “Fisherman in Residence” Role at NOAA
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) demanded transparency from the Commerce Department on the appointment of Dustin Delano as “Fisherman in Residence” at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including his suspected conflicts of interest. Transparency regarding this position is critical to the continued success of marine fisheries nationwid… Continue Reading
02.24.26
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump’s Latest Attack on NEPA, Public Input
Washington, D.C.? - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) condemned the Department of the Interior’s final rule gutting National Environmental Policy Act procedures for public lands. “The Trump administration’s final rule sharply limits the public’s ability to engage with decisions that affect public lands, which belong to every American,” said Ranking Member Huffman. “By weakening transparency and public engagement, this rule takes away the very safeg… Continue Reading
02.11.26
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
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