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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
10.23.25
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
10.07.25
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
09.10.25
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
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
08.26.25
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
08.19.25
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Federal Appeals Court Decision to Halt Oak Flat Land Transfer
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement: “The 9th Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision to pause the transfer of sacred Oak Flat to Resolution Copper is a victory for tribes, the environment, and everyone in this country who has the right for their voices to be heard. And we have the San Carlos Apache Tribe, the Inter-Tribal Association of Arizona and the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition, and the … Continue Reading
06.06.25
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Trump Administration’s Approval of Bull Mountain Coal Mine Expansion
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Huffman issued the following statement: “Just days after the Supreme Court gutted crucial environmental review standards, the Trump administration is already exploiting the ruling to reward polluters. The approval of the Bull Mountain coal mine expansion - a project repeatedly struck down by the courts - is a sweetheart deal for Signal Peak, a company with a long rap sheet of environmental crimes and workplace ri… Continue Reading
05.28.25
Ranking Member Huffman Statement on Supreme Court’s Refusal to Hear Apache Religious Freedom Case on Mining in Oak Flat
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement:“The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the Apache Stronghold’s request to pause the Trump administration’s land transfer giving sacred Oak Flat to Resolution Copper is unjust, irresponsible, and a direct threat to the health, safety, and rights of the Tribe and surrounding communities. “The final environmental impact statement on Resolution Copper will confirm w… Continue Reading
04.29.25
Huffman, Fitzpatrick, Markey Introduce Arctic Refuge Protection Act
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.) and Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) reintroduced the Arctic Refuge Protection Act, legislation which will restore critical protections to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—an area that the Gwich’in people have called “the sacred place where life begins” and the nation’s largest national wildlife refuge—by designating the Coastal Plain ecosystem as wilderness un… Continue Reading
04.22.25
Huffman, Merkley Lead Bill to End Drilling in the Arctic Ocean
Washington, D.C. - On Earth Day, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Stop Arctic Ocean Drilling Act, which would permanently ban new or renewed leases for oil, gas, or mineral extraction in the Arctic Ocean Planning Areas of the Outer Continental Shelf. This legislation protects one of the planet’s most fragile ecosystems and all the Alaska Native communities that rely on it, closing the door on futu… Continue Reading
06.28.24
Grijalva Celebrates Final Ambler Road Decision, Calls for Rejection of Harmful Senate Defense Bill Language
WASHINGTON - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s final Record of Decision to reject the proposed Ambler Road project, an industrial mining road that would have been constructed through 211 miles of the Brooks Range and Gates of the Arctic National Preserve. “Today’s final decision reflects the voices of the many Alaska Native communities who took a firm stand against the impen… Continue Reading
05.08.24
Natural Resources, CCP Select Committee Ranking Members Request Inquiry into Foreign-Controlled Companies Mining Our Public Lands
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) led a request to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the extent to which foreign-controlled companies are extracting minerals from our federally-managed public lands, as well as recommendations for ensuring that these companies comply with U.S. environmental and human rights standards. The full list of signers includes Ranking Member Grijalva, Select Committee on the Strat… Continue Reading
04.15.24
Grijalva Statement on Biden Administration Action to Hold Big Oil Accountable for Offshore Drilling Cleanup Costs
WASHINGTON - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement commending the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final rule to strengthen financial assurance requirements for offshore drilling. “For too long, insufficient financial protections have allowed Big Oil to let their equipment sit idle off our coasts — or worse, let them walk away from their cleanup responsibilities altogether — creating untold risks for coastal communiti… Continue Reading
04.11.24
Grijalva Cheers Biden Administration Action to Boost Clean Energy Development on Public Lands
WASHINGTON - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement applauding the Biden administration’s announcement of a final rule for renewable energy development on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Biden administration also announced that it has permitted nearly 29 gigawatts of renewable energy projects, far surpassing President Biden’s ambitious goal of 25 gigawatts by 2025. “Our public lands must… Continue Reading
02.20.24
Government Watchdog Raises Alarm About Inadequate Decommissioning of Oil & Gas Pipelines and Offshore Infrastructure in Two New Reports
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan government watchdog agency, released two new reports highlighting insufficiencies in the decommissioning of both onshore oil and gas pipelines and offshore drilling infrastructure. Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who requested both reports, and was joined by Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) on the offshore infrastructure report, issued the following statement on the reports’ r… Continue Reading
01.26.24
Ranking Member Grijalva Celebrates Biden Decision to Pause New LNG Exports, Consider Climate and EJ Impacts
Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on the Biden administration’s decision to pause pending approvals for all methane gas (also called liquified natural gas, or LNG) export terminals. The pause will be in effect until the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has conducted a public interest determination, which includes—for the first time in history—an analysis of climate change impacts and harms to frontli… Continue Reading
09.29.23
Ranking Members Grijalva, Huffman, Ocasio-Cortez React to New 5-Year Offshore Oil & Gas Leasing Plan
Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) today issued the following statements on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s release of a five-year leasing plan for offshore oil and gas development. The plan includes a maximum of three potential offshore lease sales in t… Continue Reading
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