Bruce Westerman

We need all forms of renewable and conventional energy to support our economy and keep our country safe.

The Biden Administration has implemented policies that put significant mineral and fuel resources off-limits to exploration and development.

The TAP American Energy Act would build on the leasing provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act and ensure lease sales will continue in the Gulf of Mexico.

When President Biden paused federal oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, our industry faced unprecedented uncertainty leading to record-high gas prices for consumers.

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.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) writes regarding legislation to be considered during the upcoming legislative hearings.

The American people are going to get a fair return for the minerals that they are providing to companies.

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

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

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

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…

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.