Topic: U.S. House Committee On Natural Resources

Energy Independence Means Exporting It So We Can Import It. Got That?

Dallas Observer - 28 days ago
Yeah, it doesn't make sense to us either. A couple of weeks ago we asked if America could stop pretending that politicians and their benefactors in...

Support for gulf drilling on rise

American Banking News - 309 days ago
Support for gulf drilling on rise. Support for gulf drilling on rise Apr. 17, 2011 (UPI NewsTrack) - WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) - A year after...

House panel OKs overhaul of oil drilling agency

AP News - 586 days ago
House panel OKs bill to overhaul oil drilling agency, slow its revolving door with industryA House panel has approved legislation that would overhaul the government agency responsible for regulating offshore drilling.The bill would divide the agency into three parts: one for ...

Pollution experts: Save fish from drugs in water

AP Features - 986 days ago
Pollution experts on Tuesday pressed a congressional panel for stronger action to keep pharmaceuticals and other contaminants out of the water, saying they are hurting fish and may threaten human health.Thomas P. Fote, a New Jersey conservationist who sits on the ...

House draft bill would raise oil royalties

Reuters US Online Report Politics News - 999 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The royalties paid by oil companies for drilling on federal lands would increase by 50 percent, and the amount of time they could hold federal leases would be cut in half, under draft legislation being circulated by House Democratic lawmakers ...

Bush rule limits Congress on drilling, mining

AP News - 1173 days ago
Bush rule change could make it tougher for Congress to block drilling, mining on public landsThe Bush administration is trying to make it tougher for Congress to block mining and oil and gas drilling on public lands.The Bureau of Land Management ...

Interior boss says he will squelch `ethical storm'

AP News - 1243 days ago
Interior Department expands ethics oversight, considers firing workers in sex, gifts scandalInterior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne pledged on Thursday to squelch the " "I can assure the committee that this process will be completed as swiftly as possible and we will examine the full ...