The TAP act provides clarity and consistency in three areas that will help meet the administration's goal of deploying at least 25 GW of geothermal resources on public land by 2025.

It is good that Congress is back at work. A lot of us have been not just slipping out and taking a break.

If we can bring the smelting and processing back home and incentivize new mines, we could recapture that, and really advance our economic future in electrification.

the failure to provide the American people with a fair return on their minerals is wrong.

The multiple-use mandate provided in the Federal Lands Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) requires the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to balance the resources and uses of public lands to the benefit of the American people.

This bill would require the Department of the Interior to hold annual lease sales for geothermal development.

Ormat applauds the work of Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR), Congressman Pete Stauber (R-MN), and members of House Committee on Natural Resources for their leadership in regulatory reform to geothermal development barriers in the United…

this is not to say that mining doesn't promote economic development in some communities.

It is always a challenge when you are dealing with the issues that we are talking about inside a building here in D.C. to see the real effect that is happening out in the real world.

Yes. We have--tradition has been we divide the resources up two-thirds and one-third, and that is the plan to do that going forward.

Our constituents are paying the price of bad policies that result in high energy prices.

As the leading trade association representing the entire value chain of the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, API supports policies that strengthen our nation's energy security and our economy, and that protect our environment.

We just have to have an Administration not turn its back on us.

America needs permitting reform, whether it be for the burgeoning offshore wind industry, building transmission lines to upgrade our energy grid, solar fields on Federal lands, geothermal steam projects, mining proposals, or oil and gas…

We do intend to use that like we did on the first field hearing that we did.

It shouldn't require Congress having to have hearings and pass laws to do the right thing.

We are going to write legislation, and we are going to pass that out of House and hopefully work in a bipartisan manner.

Those actions don't exactly promote investor confidence.