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State Rep Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, and candidate for Congress in Arkansas' 4th district, speaks at the Republican Party of Arkansas state convention in Hot Springs, Ark., Saturday, July 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

House GOP gears up for big push to get major energy bill through Congress

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 10, 2020, file photo Interior Secretary David Bernhardt testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the FY'21 budget in Washington. Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Bernhardt, a Trump administration Interior secretary, engaged in possible criminal conduct while helping an Arizona developer get a crucial permit for a housing project. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Democrats seek criminal charges against Trump Interior head

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Water infrastructure expansion requires regulatory reform

By Rep. Doug Lamborn

Bill proposes allowing mountain bikers on wilderness land

By LIZ FORSTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 23, 2016, file photo, Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, speaks in Salt Lake City. House Republicans are moving to restrict the president’s ability to protect millions of acres of federal land considered historic, geographically significant or culturally important. Bishop said presidents of both parties have misused the 1906 Antiquities Act to create oversized monuments that hinder energy development, grazing and other uses. Bishop, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced a bill that would prevent presidents from designating monuments larger than 85,000 acres and grant veto power to states and local officials for monuments larger than 10,000 acres. The GOP-controlled resources panel approved the bill on Oct. 11, 2017, 23-17, sending it to the House floor. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

House GOP moves to revamp law on national monuments

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

People kayak in the Animas River near Durango, Colo., in water colored with millions of gallons of mine waste into Cement Creek, which flows into the Animas River, on Aug. 6, 2015. (Jerry McBride/The Durango Herald via AP) **FILE**

Emails show peer reviewer ‘not happy’ with Interior Dept.’s report on Gold King Mine spill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Illustration on EPA complicity in the Gold King toxic spill by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

ROB BISHOP: EPA duplicity at the Gold King Mine

By Rob Bishop

In this Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, file photograph, water flows through a series of retention ponds after a spill at the Gold King mine near Silverton, Colo. On Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency said that the 3 million gallon spill from the gold mine may have dumped more than 880,000 pounds of metals into the Animas River. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

House panel report slams EPA for Animas River spill, accuses administration of concealing details

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A man plays his guitar while he begs for money in front of a closed down business in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, on June 29, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Congress explores fiscal control board for Puerto Rico

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Interior Sally Jewell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, before the House Natural Resources Oversight Committee hearing on the Animas River Spill in Colorado. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sally Jewell, Interior Secretary, unaware of any punishments for EPA toxic mine spill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, told National Journal this week that he may have been guilty of overreach even as he defended his probe into the funding sources of seven professors, now known as the "Grijalva Seven." (Associated Press)

Democrats press on despite heat over ‘witch hunt’ into climate scientists’ funding

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - This Dec. 17, 1981 file photo shows President Ronald Reagan pointing to a reporter for the next question during his news conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington. About the only thing former Reagan doesn’t have named after him is a mountain, not one recognized by the federal government anyway. Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev. is pushing a bill that would name a part of Frenchman Mountain, located just east of Las Vegas, after the nation’s 40th president. The House Committee on Natural Resources approved Heck’s bill on Wednesday by voice vote, but not before some Democrats on the committee had some fun with the issue. (AP Photo, File)

Committee approves bill naming peak after Reagan

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 23, 2013 file photo shows wind turbines silhouetted by the setting sun near Beaumont, Kansas. The head of the Fish and Wildlife Service tells a House panel he is unable to comply with a request for thousands of documents related to enforcement of environmental laws at wind farms where eagles and other birds have been killed. Agency director Dan Ashe said he and his staff have made &quot;super-human efforts' to supply the documents, but said the amount of documents being sought and the timeframe were &quot;completely unreasonable.'' House Republicans say the administration has engaged in a &quot;deliberate, 10-month-long slow roll&quot; to supply documents. An Associated Press investigation last year revealed that the Obama administration was failing to enforce the law for wind power, even as it pursued bird deaths caused by oil companies. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

GOP: Administration stonewalling on bird deaths

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

“President Obama has spent his entire term waging a regulatory war of red tape and government mandates on coal miners, coal jobs and the millions of people who rely on low-cost coal-fired electricity.” - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings, Washington Republican. (Associated Press)

House passes five bills to stop EPA from regulating coal

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

**FILE** Rep. Doc Hastings, Washington Republican (Associated Press)

Defying Obama, House passes bundle of bills to boost coal

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

HASTINGS: Time to improve the Endangered Species Act

By Rep. Doc Hastings

Alaska’s Parnell seeks tax cuts for oil, gas firms

By Elizabeth Wong and Josh Brown - The Washington Times