USGS: America Has Abundant Supply of Rare Earth Elements
Resourceful Information Nov 17, 2010
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On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report outlining America’s dependence on China’s tightening rare earth element (REE) market, the USGS released a report today revealing 13 million metric tons of REEs exist within known deposits in 14 U.S. states. While the largest deposits exist in California, Alaska and Wyoming, ...
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The National Academies Release Interim Report on Deepwater Horizon Incident
Blog Nov 17, 2010
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The National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council released an interim report this morning on the April 20th Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. According to the report, BP demonstrated “an insufficient consideration of risk and a lack of operating discipline.” The 15-member panel of scientists and technical ex...
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Ranking Member Hastings Statement on DOI Inspector General Report on Decision to Impose Drilling Moratorium
Press Release Nov 10, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the Department of the Interior (DOI) Inspector General report regarding changes made to DOI’s 30-Day Safety Report that recommended a drilling moratorium. This report comes after Hastings and other Natural Resource...
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Ranking Member Hastings Statement on October Jobs Report
Press Release Nov 5, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Department of Labor released the October jobs report showing that the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent. “With millions of Americans looking for jobs and the unemployment rate still hoverin...
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Hastings Outlines Natural Resources Committee Priorities
Press Release Nov 3, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) outlined the following broad priorities for the Republican Majority on the Natural Resources Committee. Hastings is seeking to become Chairman of the Committee in the 112th Congress. “Now is the time for Republicans to get to work and prove that we h...
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Rural America Solutions Group Sends Follow-Up Letter to Administrator Jackson on EPA’s Job-Killing Policies
Press Release Oct 28, 2010
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House Rural America Solutions Group Co-chairs, Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK), Small Business Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (R-WA), sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to...
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Houston Chronicle: Seahawk sells rig amid downturn in shallow-water drilling
In Case You Missed It Oct 15, 2010
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Seahawk sells rig amid downturn in shallow-water drilling October 14, 2010 Houston Chronicle Jennifer A. Dlouhy Seahawk Drilling is selling one of its rigs to an India-based oil service firm — and CEO Randy Stilley warns that could be just the first of many, as the company tries to raise cash and get rid of money-drain...
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Administration’s Announcement on Drilling Moratorium Creates More Questions than Answers
Press Release Oct 12, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced an end to the deepwater drilling moratorium in the Outer Continental Shelf: “Today’s announcement isn’t time for applause, it’s time to demand real, straight answe...
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Hastings Statement on September Unemployment Report
Press Release Oct 8, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the new Department of Labor report showing that the economy lost 95,000 jobs in September: “Since the enactment of the Democrats’ trillion-dollar stimulus bill, which the Administration promised would keep unemploy...
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Interior Issues New Rules, But Refuses to Say When it Will Lift Moratorium and Let People Go Back to Work
Press Release Sep 30, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the Department of the Interior’s new offshore drilling regulations: “The Interior Department today announced new rules on drilling, but still refuses to say when the arbitrary, non-science based moratorium will be ...
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New York Times: Drilling Plans Off Cuba Stir Fears of Impact on Gulf
In Case You Missed It Sep 30, 2010
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Drilling Plans Off Cuba Stir Fears of Impact on Gulf September 30, 2010 New York Times Clifford Kraus HOUSTON — Five months after the BP oil spill, a federal moratorium still prohibits new deepwater drilling in the American waters of the Gulf of Mexico. And under longstanding federal law, drilling is also banned near ...
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Forum Examines Impact of Job-Killing EPA Regulations on Rural America
Press Release Sep 29, 2010
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Representatives Frank Lucas (R-OK), Sam Graves (R-MO), and Doc Hastings (R-WA), Co-Chairs of the Rural America Solutions Group, hosted a forum today entitled, “The EPA’s Assault on Rural America: How New Regulations and Proposed Legislation are Stifling Job Creation and Economic Growth.” Experts from across the country...
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Rep. Frank Lucas: Obama's EPA has become an agency gone wild
Blog Sep 29, 2010
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Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK) Every day the EPA seems to demonstrate how vastly disconnected it is to the folks who feed us. With little oversight from the Democratic leadership that controls both the House and the Senate, Obama’s EPA has become an agency gone wild, creating regulations and policies that are burdensome, ove...
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Rural American Solutions Group Forum on Job-Killing EPA Regulations
Blog Sep 28, 2010
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Rep. Frank Lucas (OK), Rep. Sam Graves (MO), and Rep. Doc Hastings (WA), co-chairs of the Rural America Solutions Group, will host a forum to discuss Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and initiatives that are hindering job creation and economic expansion in America’s rural communities. The forum, entitl...
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What Americans Should Know on National Public Lands Day
Blog Sep 24, 2010
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Tomorrow is National Public Lands Day—a day that should be celebrated with family trips to all of our public lands. Unfortunately, safe family trips to some of our public lands on the southern and northern border are impossible. Most Americans don’t realize that many of our public lands along both the northern and sout...
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Ranking Member Hastings Statement on House Republicans “Pledge to America”
Press Release Sep 23, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after House Republicans unveiled “A Pledge to America,” a new governing agenda built by listening to the American people that offers immediate solutions to create jobs, cut spending, reform Congress, and keep our nati...
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Wall Street Journal Editorial: The Real Gulf Disaster
In Case You Missed It Sep 22, 2010
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The Real Gulf Disaster The Wall Street Journal September 22, 2010 Editorial On Sunday Federal spill-response chief Thad Allen declared BP's ruptured well "effectively dead." Now if only Gulf residents weren't stuck coping with the disaster the government created after the accident—namely, the federal drilling moratori...
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Hastings’ WAPA Bill Increases Transparency, Eliminates Taxpayer Bailouts
Press Release Sep 16, 2010
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Today, the House Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 6107, the American Taxpayer and Western Area Power Administration Firm Power Customer Protection and Government Accountability Act of 2010. The bill, sponsored by Ranking Committee Republican Doc Hastings (WA-04), would eliminate the...
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Republicans Request Full Committee Hearing on Dangerous Federal Lands Near Southern Border
Press Release Sep 14, 2010
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Today, all 20 Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee sent a letter to Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) highlighting the recent violence and increase of criminal activities on public lands near the U.S.-Mexico border. The letter cites many media accounts of violence, crime and other illegal activities and asks ...
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Study Finds President Obama’s Proposed Oil and Gas Tax Hikes Will Cost Jobs, Slow Economic Recovery
Press Release Sep 13, 2010
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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement on today’s report by Louisiana State University Endowed Chair of Banking and economist Dr. Joseph R. Mason on the economic impacts of President Obama’s proposed tax increases on oil and gas. The report concluded that th...
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Associated Press: A look at who got gov't Gulf work
In Case You Missed It Sep 13, 2010
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AP ENTERPRISE: A look at who got gov't Gulf work Associated Press Sharon Theimer Monday, September 13, 2010 WASHINGTON – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was k...
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News Driving the Week: Potential Ban on Bullets Rejected by EPA
Blog Aug 31, 2010
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EPA made right move on lead issue (AZ Republic Editorial 8/31/10) Gun owners dodge the bullet ban (Washington Times Editorial 8/30/10) EPA rejects traditional ammo ban petition claiming lack of jurisdiction (Phoenix Examiner 8/28/10) EPA caves: Rejects petition to ban lead in ammo (American Thinker 8/28/10) EPA Denies...
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ICYMI: It's Time to Unleash the Power of American Energy
Members Urge VIP Act Implementation Before Memorial Day
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