This bill allows those same oil companies to prepare their own environmental reviews.

What we don't need is permitting reform that guts and takes away the protections that NEPA gives to communities like mine.

It feels a little like deja vu. A few weeks ago, we sat in this room while my colleagues across the aisle spent hours scapegoating our environmental review processes.

All told, our committee has passed scores of bills out of the House, and 149 passed Senate and became law--149.

We want to attract and keep the best, and these skilled and dedicated public servants are needed now more than ever.

As the chairman mentioned, it is difficult to overstate the importance of the work of our committee.

We are at the center of Federal efforts toward environmental justice, and we are a vital--and that concept has been made a vital component of any response to the climate crisis.

the Biden administration is effectively not only standing in the way, but making it impossible for the kind of critical mineral extraction in this topic to get done.

One of the things I have been promoting, if we are serious about, is that those mining companies that have those horrendous human, environmental, and labor abuses, and are doing businesses in other parts of the world, wouldn't it be…

Circular economy policy for energy transition minerals has the following main components: 1) labeling 2) producer responsibility 3) battery design for recycled content with high environmental standards 4) supply chain due diligence.

I don't think we can look at this regulatory side and permitting side in terms of what needs to be done there, relative to mining and critical minerals without overlapping on that 1872 mining law.