Another essential component of our national security is energy security. America is blessed with abundant natural resources which can ensure that we have accessible and affordable energy. Legacy energy sources such as coal, oil, gas, and uranium can meet our demands, and Wyoming is blessed with an abundance of these energy resources. However, a growing partnership between politicized investment capital and unelected bureaucrats seeks to undermine these necessary resources to advance an energy transition which cannot provide the power a prosperous nation requires.
Faced with an onslaught of regulations and private sector advocacy, I value my position on the Natural Resources Committee and as Co-Chair of the Coal Caucus to advance policies which unleash American energy rather than inflicting energy poverty on our communities. Among my priorities are reforming laws weaponized by environmental groups such as the National Environmental Policy Act, reducing the federal burden on the Western mineral estate, and routing out the ESG-bureaucrat collaboration, such as my success in blocking the implementation of Natural Asset Companies (NACs).
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Today, H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, was formally introduced in the House of Representatives. This legislation combines multiple bills that focus on America’s ability to be energy independent and reduce the punitive regulatory burden that has been enacted on the energy industry since Joe Biden was sworn into office.
CHEYENNE (WNE) — On Thursday, in the House Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., voted to pass the Transparency, Accountability, Permitting and Production (TAPP) of American Resources Act.
The legislation would streamline and speed up permitting for tapping into American energy resources, from extraction through production, according to a news release from Hageman’s office.
The bill will now be scheduled for a vote of the full House of Representatives.
Today in the House Natural Resources Committee, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted to pass the Transparency, Accountability, Permitting and Production (TAPP) of American Resources Act. The legislation would streamline and speed up permitting for tapping into our American energy resources, from extraction through production. The bill will now be scheduled for a vote of the full House of Representatives.
Western hydropower, fisheries, and farms would not exist without the reservoirs and irrigation infrastructure created by the Reclamation Act on 1902. Much of the Interior West would not exist without this visionary legislation.
Yet the Bureau of Reclamation has chosen to prioritize liberal environmental pursuits that drain our resources over irrigation projects that create abundance for all. The Bureau must return to it's initial purpose of stewarding our water and other natural resources to ensure American prosperity, not poverty.
This op-ed was first published in Townhall on March 2, 2023. Click here to view it on their site.
This morning, during the 10AM ET hour, Representative Harriet Hageman will speak on the floor of the US House of Representatives. Over the past two years America has gone from energy dominance to energy dependence – an issue of concern to not only the citizens of Wyoming, but to the entire country. Tuesday’s speech will be a repudiation of the policies and practices that have led to our decline in energy production and a roadmap for how to regain our status as a net energy exporter.
At a House Natural Resource Subcommittee hearing on energy and minerals earlier this month, Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) questioned witnesses.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency released a determination that would deny State Implementation Plans submitted by Wyoming and 18 other states to implement its new Interstate Transport Rule, which is a regulation to ensure “upwind” states are not contributing to smog in “downwind” states.
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a determination that would deny State Implementation Plans (SIP) submitted by Wyoming and 18 other states, to implement its new Interstate Transport Rule, which is a regulation to ensure “upwind” states are not contributing to smog in “downwind” states. Despite the EPA’s obligation under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to recognize state implementation plans (SIPs), the EPA has chosen to ignore Wyoming’s plan in favor of far more restrictive policies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Chair of the Senate Western Caucus Cynthia Lummis, along with Sen. John Barrasso, Rep. Harriet Hageman (all R-Wyo.) and 30 of their colleagues reintroduced the Protecting Our Wealth of Energy Resources (POWER) Act to prohibit the president or his secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture or Energy from blocking energy or mineral leasing and permitting on federal lands and waters without congressional approval.