Washington, D.C. – Today Congressman Kevin Cramer conducted a special leadership hour for the House Energy Action Team (HEAT) on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in opposition to the President’s newly announced climate regulation scheme. Cramer managed remarks made on the House floor during a full hour by seven members of Congress; Rep. Steve Daines (R-MT), Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-PA), Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY), Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA). Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Today Congressman Kevin Cramer strongly criticizedPresident Obama’s plans to restrict emissions from power plants as part of a larger climate regulation scheme. In a speech at Georgetown University today, Obama outlined a list of new energy regulations, which calls for an unprecedented cap on carbon emissions from all power plants generating electricity from fossil fuels, including those already in existence. A previous attempt to limit such emissions only for future power plants has been delayed by the EPA. Read more »
Washington, D.C. (June 25, 2013) – Today, President Obama and his top climate change advisors released their latest proposals to circumvent Congress and play politics with the price of electricity. Congressional Western Caucus Co-Chairman Steve Pearce and Cynthia Lummis issued the following statements: Read more »
Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced it has backed away from its controversial study alleging groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing activities in Pavillion, Wyo. The study, released in December of 2011, was met with a firestorm of criticism and concerns, including the absence of peer review prior to the report’s release, a lack of data transparency, failure to adhere to information quality guidelines, and poor sampling and monitoring techniques that called into question the validity of the results. Read more »
WASHINGTON– On June 11, 2013 the Sierra Club held an event in Moab, Utah to promote the establishment of a new national monument known as Greater Canyonlands. The Sierra Club’s executive director Michael Brune stated before an audience in Moab that he is “100% certain” that a monument would be created unilaterally by President Obama through his use of the Antiquities Act. Read more »
Washington, D.C. (June 21, 2013) – The State of Wyoming announced today that the EPA would set aside its report on hydraulic fracturing and water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming. The report, released to the public without peer review on December 8, 2011, was the first time the EPA had implied contaminated water was the result of hydraulic fracturing. The EPA’s decision to pull its report comes after State experts, other federal agencies, and industry had criticized the EPA’s drilling plan and testing procedures. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against the one trillion dollar Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 (H.R. 1947), which is commonly known as the “farm” bill. The 1,200-page bill would cost taxpayers 56 percent more than the last “farm” bill, passed by Congress in 2008. Read more »
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass H.R. 1947, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM) this afternoon. Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins (KS-02) released the following statement after voting in favor of the bill: Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Daines blasted the House failure to pass a five-year Farm Bill today, calling Congress’s failure to provide Montana’s agriculture community with the long overdue legislation “unacceptable.” Read more »
