Press Releases

08.19.26

Huffman, Bennet, Colleagues Fight Against Rescission of Key Energy Leasing and Public Lands Protections

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet led 39 colleagues to oppose the recent rescission of two key Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas rules on leasing and waste prevention. Their rollback will harm public lands, reduce community input, increase pollution, and raise taxpayer costs. In the first letter, the lawmakers denounce the BLM’s proposal to rescind the 2024 Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process rule (the 2024 Ons… Continue Reading

08.18.26

Huffman Statement on Proposed Roadless Rule Rollback

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after the Trump administration proposed to finalize the rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule, which would strip protections from nearly 45 million acres of national forests and leave these lands vulnerable to reckless development:“The Roadless Rule protects nearly 45 million acres of the last untouched forests we have left, forests that filter drinking water for mill… Continue Reading

08.17.26

54 House Democrats Raise Concerns Over Trump Administration’s Critical Minerals Agreements

Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.), and Congressman Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill.) led 51 of their House Democratic colleagues in calling on the Trump administration to address concerns about its recently announced critical minerals agreements. The deals lack transparency and enforceable protections for labor rights, human rights and the environment, while potentially… Continue Reading

08.11.26

Huffman Statement on Court Ruling to Stop Trump Admin’s Greenlight for Illegal Colosseum Mine

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after a federal court ordered an immediate halt to new mining operations at the Colosseum Mine inside Mojave National Preserve.“The District Court just said what the Trump administration won’t: the mining industry is not above the law. Our public lands belong to all of us, and no mining company gets to bulldoze a place we promised to protect for future genera… Continue Reading

08.11.26

Huffman, Thompson, Hernández, Heinrich Want Answers on Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis from Gov Watchdog

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), House Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), Resident Commissioner Pablo José Hernández (D-P.R.), and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a briefing and a full investigation into Puerto Rico’s drinking water shortages, the condition of its water and wast… Continue Reading

08.11.26

Huffman, Garcia Demand Documents from Vulcan Elements After White House Pushed Through $620 Million Loan to Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Vulcan Elements CEO John Maslin demanding overdue documents after ProPublica reporting revealed that the company’s $620 million Department of Defense loan resulted from direct White House intervention, contradicting assurances Maslin gave Committee staff and reporters that his company recei… Continue Reading

08.10.26

Huffman, Dexter Open Investigation into Insider Trading at Energy Fuels After Trump Guts Bears Ears

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) opened an investigation into potential insider trading at Energy Fuels Inc., after the company's CEO and Chairman of the Board bought company stock days before President Trump announced he was shrinking Bears Ears National Monument by more than 90 percent.On July 7, 2026, CEO Ross Bhappu purchased 74,000 shares, … Continue Reading

08.06.26

Huffman: Trump’s Latest Billion-Dollar Payoff Kills More American Energy, Drives Up Costs, and Rewards Fossil Fuels

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after the Trump administration announced yet another fake settlement using more than $1 billion in taxpayer funds to pay an offshore wind developer to abandon its job-creating clean energy projects and instead prop up fossil fuel exports. “The most corrupt, lawless administration in American history is once again flouting the law and attempting to use over $1 billion… Continue Reading

08.06.26

Top Democrats on the House Natural Resources and Agriculture Committees Introduce the Wildfire Response and Readiness Act

Washington, D.C. — Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (CA-02), Assistant Democratic Leader and Federal Lands Subcommittee Ranking Member Joe Neguse (CO-02), Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02), Forestry and Horticulture Subcommittee Ranking Member Andrea Salinas (OR-06), and Congressman George Whitesides (CA-27) introduced the Wildfire Response and Readiness Act, a comprehensive package of wildland fire policy that meets the moment for Americans … Continue Reading

08.05.26

Huffman Blasts Trump Scheme to Plant Project 2025 Architect Inside Interior's Watchdog Office

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after reports that the Trump administration installed Dennis Kirk, a lead architect of Project 2025, inside the Department of the Interior's Office of Inspector General: “Dennis Kirk is a fake and fraudulent watchdog. Everyone should have their eyes wide open. Each and every thing this political puppet does will be in service of Donald Trump. “This man helped wri… Continue Reading

07.27.26

Huffman: Trump's Loyalist-Stacked Council Votes to Bulldoze America's History

Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation voted to gut Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, the rule that requires the federal government to consider harm to historic and sacred places, and to hear from the people affected, before approving construction projects: “Donald Trump packed this council with loyalists and gave them one job: tear down … Continue Reading

07.17.26

Ranking Members Huffman and Heinrich Demand Answers on Trump Administration’s Fast-Track of Pro-Oil Rule for Alaska’s Western Arctic

Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Members Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum demanding answers about the Department of the Interior’s effort to fast-track an oil industry-backed rule that would weaken environmental protections and expedite oil and gas permitting across the Western Arctic. The lawmakers raised conflict-of-interest concerns after Interior moved to implement the industry-written proposal just days after receiving th… Continue Reading

07.13.26

Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump’s Illegal Monument Rollback

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after President Trump signed executive actions shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments: “Trump has been selling out our public lands and waters since the day he took office. He opened every marine monument in the country to commercial fishing, auctioned off the Arctic Refuge for pocket change, and tried to gut the Park Service by more t… Continue Reading

07.13.26

Huffman: Trump's Offshore Agency Merger Puts Workers, Coastal Communities at Risk of Another Deepwater Horizon

Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) condemned the Interior Department's plan to consolidate offshore energy and safety functions into a new Marine Minerals Administration:“Merging our offshore energy and safety agencies leaves workers, communities, and taxpayers more vulnerable to another preventable disaster like Deepwater Horizon. pushing to expand offshore drilling and starting risky, unproven deep-sea mining operations to help o… Continue Reading

07.10.26

Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump’s Move to Decimate Habitats, Kill Off Treasured Species

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement on the Trump administration’s changes to the Endangered Species Act that will allow special interests to destroy imperiled species’ habitats: “Trump is doing everything in his power to let his billionaire, big industry buddies ravage and obliterate our country to turn a quick buck. This move would let special interests destroy an endangered animal’s home, its food, … Continue Reading

07.08.26

Ranking Members Huffman and Heinrich Lead Call for Investigation into Trump Admin's Plan to Merge Offshore Energy Agencies

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), urging the agency to investigate whether a proposed agency consolidation within the Department of the Interior (DOI) would undermine the independent offshore safety oversight Congress… Continue Reading

07.02.26

Ranking Member Huffman Releases Report on How Trump Hijacked America's 250th Birthday to Enrich Himself, Sell Access, and Harvest Americans' Data

Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released a new 55-page report following months of investigative work by Committee Democrats exposing how Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country's 250th birthday and made it all about him - his vanity projects, his political and religious agenda, his business ventures, and his cronies who gorged on public funds under cover of a shadow corp… Continue Reading

07.01.26

Huffman publica informe de la GAO: A nueve años de los huracanes, el 75% de los fondos para la red eléctrica de Puerto Rico sigue sin llegar

Washington, D.C. - Un nuevo informe de la Oficina de Rendición de Cuentas del Gobierno (GAO), publicado hoy por el líder demócrata del Comité de Recursos Naturales de la Cámara de Representantes, Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), determinó que—nueve años después de que los huracanes Irma y María destruyeron la red eléctrica de Puerto Rico—el gobierno federal ha logrado un progreso limitado en el desembolso de los miles de millones de dólares que el Congreso asignó para recuperación y la modernización. … Continue Reading

07.01.26

Huffman Releases Gov Watchdog Report, Finds Billions in Puerto Rico Grid Funding Stuck in Federal Pipeline Nine Years After Hurricanes

Washington, D.C. - A new Government Accountability Office report today released by House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) found that nine years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's electricity grid, the federal government has made limited progress delivering the billions of dollars Congress appropriated for recovery and modernization. The report found that FEMA, HUD, and the Department of Energy have obligated approximately $14.3 billion for… Continue Reading

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