Natural Resources
As an attorney, I fought to return control of natural resources to local entities, not far-away federal bureaucrats. I am honored to serve on the Natural Resources committee to continue this work from the halls of Congress. I also have the privilege of chairing the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, working with tribal and territorial leaders on issues important to their communities.
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Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman introduced legislation to direct the Secretary of Interior to remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife. The Greater Yellowstone population was delisted twice before, in 2007 and 2017. Each time, the delisting was thrown out by activist courts.
The push to delist grizzly bears moved into the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, as Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Harriet Hageman and others introduced a bill calling for delisting.
“The Greater Yellowstone population of grizzly bears should have been removed from the endangered and threatened species list fifteen years ago,” Hageman said in a statement announcing the legislation.
Hageman Joins Gordon, Wyoming Senators
A counseling program for federal wildlife service employees supposedly suffering from “eco-grief” isn’t just a sham, it’s part of a wider campaign of “wokeism” bent on destroying the energy economy, Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Harriet Hageman claimed early Tuesday.
During a speech in the U.S. House chamber, she called the counseling program available to some U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) employees “another instance of the insanity of wokeism.”
Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., plans to blast plans from the Fish and Wildlife Service to offer federal employees training in “ecogrief” to cope with the trauma of climate change.
According to the Washington Times, the federal agency’s southwest region is planning to give staffers “a chance to define what they mean by ecological grief, space to examine their emotional reactions and tools to grapple with those feelings.”
US Representative Harriet Hageman recently visited Green River, stopping at a local school to meet a student who wrote her a letter and then talking with local officials at City Hall.
A visit to school
Last Thursday morning, Hageman attended an assembly at Harrison Elementary School, showing up in response to a student's letter.
Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman introduced the POWER Act. This legislation would require the President and federal agencies to obtain the approval of Congress before prohibiting or delaying new energy, coal, or mineral leases or permits on federal lands. This bill is a direct response to President Biden’s ban on new energy leases.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Chair of the Senate Western Caucus Cynthia Lummis, along with Sen. John Barrasso, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman and 30 of their colleagues, reintroduced the Protecting Our Wealth of Energy Resources, or POWER, Act today.
The act would 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.
Coal is a reliable, affordable power that keeps the lights on. The world at large is growing in coal usage because renewable energy attempts haven't lived up to the production levels they promised.
We must support mining operations and remove barriers prohibiting their development if the United States wants to remain competitive at the global scale.
Some politicians in the Mountain West are renewing calls to transfer federal lands to state and local governments as a way to ease the affordable housing crisis. They argue that such transfers could provide much-needed space in fast-growing communities hemmed in by public lands, while critics say these proposals threaten what makes these areas appealing to begin with.
Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR), named Representative Harriet Hageman as the Chair of the Subcommittee for Indian and Insular Affairs. This subcommittee oversees all matters regarding Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives, including the 574 federally recognized Indian tribes with approximately 2 million members. It also has jurisdiction over the US Territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.