Press Releases
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
12.04.25
Huffman, Padilla Lead California Lawmakers in Condemning Trump’s Plan to Allow Oil Drilling Along California’s Pristine Coastline
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02), U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Reps. Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.-24), Mike Levin (D-Calif.-49), and Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.-19) led 26 members of the California Democratic Congressional delegation in condemning the Trump Administration’s official draft 2027-2032 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program that inclu… Continue Reading
11.20.25
“President Trump and Congressional Republicans are Waging an All-Out War on Clean Energy”
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 Americans. Democratic members offered a series of amendments to the legislation that would lower costs, improve public health, support community input, prevent polluter handouts, and stop Trump’s attacks on cheap, clean energy sources. E… Continue Reading
11.20.25
Huffman, Padilla Blast Trump’s Disastrous Plan to Auction off America’s Coasts to Big Oil
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) condemned the Trump administration's draft 2027-2032 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, which proposes opening vast swaths of previously protected federal waters, including along the California coast, all of Alaska’s offshore waters, and the eastern Gulf of Mexico.“With this draft plan, Donald Trump and his Administration are trying to destroy o… Continue Reading
11.19.25
Ranking Member Huffman Calls Out Trump for Putting Polluters Over Public Health
Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member Huffman released a statement on the Trump administration’s announcement to push back the compliance deadline for the Methane Waste Rule, clearing the way for polluters to ignore regulations and avoid paying royalties to public and Indian mineral owners.“Their first week back after the longest shutdown in American history, Republicans haven’t done a single thing to lower costs or improve the lives of hardworking people. Instead, they’ve prioritized rolling… Continue Reading
11.10.25
Huffman, Hickenlooper Lead 59 Colleagues to Blast Trump Admin’s Decision to Undermine Public Lands
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02) and U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) led 59 of their congressional colleagues to demand the Trump administration protect public lands and end its plans to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Public Lands Rule. “The American people overwhelmingly support the Public Lands Rule,” wrote the lawmakers in their letter to Interior Doug Burgum and BLM Acting Director Bill Groffy. “R… Continue Reading
10.30.25
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
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