The generational investments that we enacted last Congress are financing projects literally across the Rocky Mountain West.

It is very clear that we have a crisis on our hands.

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…

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).

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

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

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.

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

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.

The TAP American Energy Act also provides Gulf coast energy producing states with a larger share of revenue from offshore energy development.

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