It is my understanding that under current law, FEMA can provide a community up to $250,000 to help them with mapping.
We have to find a better way, whether it is along the Mississippi, for which we are very appreciative and understand it is very unique.
It would seem to me a more reasonable approach would be to develop the maps together, in sort of a not adversarial, but in a partnership, be...
Natural resource damages assessments are extremely important, but like Councilman Young I have been more focused on natural resource damages...
The irony of this decision is that they are the only ones drilling right now in the Gulf.
This decision to halt all new energy production in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have been made in an uninformed manner and, in my view, bor...
the only company drilling in the Gulf of Mexico today in deep water is the company that caused the spill--British Petroleum.
I sent a letter to President Obama yesterday announcing my intention to hold another hearing no later than September 16th.
I share the Administration's goal of a safer oil and gas industry, not their method to achieve that.
I would say to the Administration, listen to your own experts. Listen to the facts, as the Chair of this Committee has so articulately prono...
My question to President Obama and to his Administration after they scrambled to put an economic analysis together that they should have put...
unnecessary, ill-conceived, and a second economic disaster for the Gulf Coast. The BP oil spill was the exception rather than the rule.
Lifting this moratorium can give us back its 'Joie de vivre.'
This decision was wrong-headed, it is irresponsible, and it is reckless.
I too believe the moratorium is arbitrary and capricious.
We must get the Gulf of Mexico back producing for national security, for our environmental, and for small businesses.
We cannot close down the offshore oil and gas sector without devastating economic impacts to our region.
And that is assuming the best-case scenario, and we are not on a glide path to that right now, in my view.
