Bruce Westerman

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.

Regulatory reform is critical to alleviate barriers to geothermal development in the United States.

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 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.

IPAA thanks Chairman Westerman, Chairman Stauber, and Representative Graves for the thoughtful reforms outlined in the Transparency and Production of American Energy Act of 2023 (TAP Act).

Every time we refuse to permit a mine here in America, we are depending more on mines that are controlled by Chinese.

We produce energy with less emissions, cleaner, and safer on our facilities than we do anywhere else.

I want to work across the aisle with my colleagues, because I want to do what is best for our country, what is best, really, for the entire planet.

It is because of the paralysis through the permitting system.

We can have clean energy. We produce energy cleaner in America than anyplace else in the world.

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

If we continue down the path that we are on, we are going to go down a path where we lose.

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

It takes an absolutely unreasonable amount of time to mine here in the United States.

Without reforms to ensure reasonable timeliness, crucial investments in American infrastructure will be delayed and in some cases diverted.

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…

Those actions don't exactly promote investor confidence.

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

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

It is wrong. It is misguided, and it is time we hold them accountable.

Just last month, Joe Biden chose to ban mining in more than 225,000 acres of an industrial working forest called the Superior National Forest, in the district that I represent.

We have a long ways to go to make sure that America is energy independent, that we are not relying on foreign allies, or foreign adversaries.

We were talking about American energy independence. We were talking about cutting supply lines that depended on China and Russia and foreign adversaries.

We also need an all-of-the-above minerals approach: new mining, recycling, and being as efficient and effective as we can.

We do need to work on trade. We do need to make American, not only mining, but processing and manufacturing, stronger than ever before.