The Bureau of Land Management opened a public comment period this week on an environmental review of federal leasing of thermal coal. It’s an early step in a long process that’s needed if a federal moratorium on leasing is to be lifted, which will be required for long-term coal production in Wyoming. 

Legislators met with local officials and business leaders to talk energy and strategize Tuesday.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La, gathered seven Republican Congressmembers to tour the Gulf, and met with members of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission, Parish Presidents, South Central Industrial Association and other energy sector leaders. The gathering is an annual affair held by Scalise and this year they discussed and refined political arguments for promoting an overarching energy infrastructure agenda.

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, continues to establish herself as a prominent freshman lawmaker in Congress.

Hageman announced Monday that she has been named co-chair of the House Coal Caucus, a group of 33 mostly Republican members of congress who are

“I am proud to join with my colleagues as a co-chair of the Coal Caucus because America must have accessible and affordable energy and coal is a prime source of that energy now — and will be needed for generations to come,” Hageman said in a press release.

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman is moving forward with her push against the actions of “unelected bureaucrats,” grilling Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach about his agency’s regulation on pistol braces and bump stocks during a House Judiciary Committee meeting. 

Pistol Braces

GILLETTE, Wyo. — Twenty-six Wyoming youths earned gold, silver and bronze Congressional Awards this year and were recognized by the Wyoming Congressional Award Council, or WCAC, during a Sunday morning ceremony at the Cheyenne Civic Center.

Established by Congress in 1979, the Congressional Award is a national program that recognizes initiative, service and achievement in young people. Any student can register for their state’s program at 13 and a half years old and must finish all activities by their 24th birthday.

Legislation to remove the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species List in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems, took a big step forward last week.

The House Committee on Natural Resources passed Congressman Matt Rosendale’s (MT-02) legislation to delist the grizzly bear in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. In the same committee meeting legislation sponsored by Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman would remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly from the list.