HAGEMAN’S HOUSE NATURAL RESOURCE COMMITTEE SETS AMERICA ON A PATH OF INCREASED ENERGY AND MINERAL PRODUCTION AND WORKS TO BLOCK THE BUFFALO AND ROCK SPRINGS RMPs

Washington, D.C. – In a House Natural Resource Committee markup yesterday, as part of the budget reconciliation process, Congresswoman Hageman worked with her colleagues to generate $18.5 billion in revenue for the United States by bolstering the extraction of energy and mineral resources in states like Wyoming. Now passed by the Committee, the next step is consideration by the Budget Committee.  
 

“America is $36 trillion and counting in debt, and Congressional Republicans are working to reconcile the budget to advance reforms which put us back on the right track. Wyoming can generate extensive revenues through our rich energy portfolio, but has long been stifled by bad actors peddling a crazed ‘green energy’ political agenda rather than leveraging our energy capital to better the lives of everyday Americans. Through this markup, we are answering President Trump’s call to unleash American energy through a litany of proposals that will mandate oil, gas, and coal leasing, lower coal royalty rates to pre-Inflation Reduction Act levels, promote federal mineral leasing, mandate coal lease sales and stipulate the requirements for such lease sales, roll-back the federal coal moratorium, and more.” Hageman said, “Included in this package, of incredibly high importance to Wyomingites, is the prohibition of the implementation of the Buffalo and Rock Springs Resource Management Plans.” 
 

Congresswoman Hageman worked with local County Commissioners from across Wyoming who submitted letters expressing the disparate impact of the Resource Management Plans on their counties and the communities within. Hageman delivered the letters to the Committee as part of the hearing and to serve as direct evidence from her constituents that this action must take place.  
 

She concluded, "I could not be more proud of my colleagues on the Natural Resources Committee who took a stand today to allow for a more prosperous tomorrow. Our future is promising and by getting government out of the way, we can expect affordable, reliable and dispatchable energy resources and a robust mineral portfolio – mined right here in America – long into the future.”  
 

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