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Gov Watchdog Finds Geothermal Developers Lack Permitting Tools Oil and Gas Companies Already Have
Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report showing that companies trying to build geothermal power on public lands lack basic permitting tools that oil and gas companies already have and face confusing rules with no way to see where their permits stand, even as demand for geothermal development has grown more than fortyfold since 2020.The watchdog report, requested by U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif… Continue Reading
10.01.26
Ranking Members Huffman, Meeks, Garcia, Pallone and Castro Demand Transparency on Trump Administration’s Venezuela Oil Deal
Washington, D.C. — Jared Huffman, Ranking Member of the Committee on Natural Resources; Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Frank Pallone, Jr., Ranking Member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce; and Joaquin Castro, Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, demanded answers from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Def… Continue Reading
09.24.26
Huffman, Titus Lead Colleagues in Demanding Answers on Trump Admin Plans to Open Public Lands to AI Datacenters
Washington, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Representative Dina Titus (D-Nev.), along with 14 House Democrats, sent a letter demanding answers from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on the Department's reported plans to hand over federal public lands for massive data center projects.The Bureau of Land Management is reportedly reviewing at least a dozen data center proposals at the President's direction, covering at least 17,600 acres across Ariz… Continue Reading
09.04.26
Huffman, Territorial Delegates, Colleagues Lead Bipartisan Call for Public Input on Deep Sea Mining Proposals
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Rep. Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-American Samoa), Rep. Kimberlyn King-Hinds (R-Northern Mariana Islands), Rep. James Moylan (R-Guam), and Rep. Ed Case (D-Hawaii) sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and the Marine Minerals Administration requesting a formal, open public comment period for the proposed deep sea mining lease sales offshore American Samoa and the Commonwealth of … Continue Reading
09.02.26
House Republicans Pass Bills to Push North Atlantic Right Whales Toward Extinction, Let Trump Fast-Track Permits for Any Mine He Likes
Washington, D.C. — House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) took to the House Floor this week to oppose H.R. 9436, which extends a special industry waiver that will lead to more critically endangered North Atlantic right whales dying in fishing rope, and H.R. 1501, which lets the Trump administration fast-track any mining project, including those the Trump family has invested in. Watch Ranking Member Huffman speak on House floor on H.R. 9436 and on H.R. 1501. … Continue Reading
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
08.11.26
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, 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
08.06.26
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
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
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
07.08.26
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
06.22.26
Huffman Statement on Trump’s Latest Gift to Big Oil
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after the Trump administration announced it would roll back essential public lands and public health protections in the Bureau of Land Management’s oil and gas leasing rule and the waste prevention rule: “There is no limit to what this corrupt administration will do to please its Big Oil overlords.“Requiring oil and gas companies to minimize pollution, prevent waste… Continue Reading
06.05.26
Ranking Member Huffman and Senator Markey Statement on Arctic Refuge Lease Sale
Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass), member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today issued a statement on the Trump administration’s lease sale for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which offered nearly 700,000 acres of sacred and sensitive lands within the Refuge for sale to oil and gas companies. The auction raised only $3.74 million, with two entities winning bids—one of which is the… Continue Reading
06.05.26
Huffman Slams Trump’s $700 Million Coal Handout to Prop Up Coal for Big Tech
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after President Trump announced plans to hand out nearly $700 million in taxpayer dollars for new and existing coal plants and a coal export terminal through the Defense Production Act. “Trump just handed the dying coal industry $700 million in taxpayer money, and Americans will pay for it twice - once on their taxes, and again when their energy bills climb, thei… Continue Reading
04.23.26
Ranking Members Huffman, Ansari Oppose Republican Bill to Let Corporations Drill Under Americans' Private Property
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) took to the House Floor to oppose H.R. 5587, the "HEATS Act," Republican legislation that lets corporations tunnel into federal minerals beneath Americans’ property without a federal permit, without public input, without Tribal consultation, and without any of the safeguards that keep families safe from earthqua… Continue Reading
04.06.26
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
03.16.26
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
03.03.26
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
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
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