Alan Lowenthal

Unfortunately, the Trump administration, in its quest for energy dominance, appears eager to upset this balance and open the entire North Slope to unfettered development.

The irreversible damage we could inflict on this area by drilling on it is disproportionately high compared to the amount of oil we could possibly extract. It simply isn't worth it.

It seems clear, then, that Congress recognized that the government had a responsibility to treat the NPR-A in a similar manner to other public lands, balancing energy development along with conservation and protection.

I would just like to know how FMCSA is coordinating with the State of California's Department of Industrial Relations or with the Department of Labor here at the Federal level to disseminate information about driver's rights under the…

There has to be a balance, a balance between development and conservation.

Most commenters favored wilderness designation of the Coastal Plain of the Refuge.

I represent the Port of Long Beach. So I have seen this over--and I have represented it since I was on the city council and the State.

Oil and gas development in Alaska is not an easy issue to grapple with.

But we obviously were not safe.

But now the Trump administration wants to take us backwards.

We should not be providing the subsidies to the companies just because oil and gas is cheap.

I strongly oppose these policies, and implore the Administration not to issue any new oil and gas lease sales on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Climate change is real, it is happening, and we need to act now to stop it, not to go the other way and to open up our coastline.

If you represent Louisiana, you want to open up your coast line, you want to put it at risk, I say stay off of my California coastline.

The Department of the Interior will be a better neighbor in the new Trump administration.

I write today regarding your July 12, 2017 oversight hearing on 'Evaluating Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Development on the Outer Continental Shelf.'

To put it at risk is totally unacceptable.

Interior is going to become the worst neighbor imaginable.

Dear Chairman Gosar and Ranking Member Lowenthal: In connection with your July 12, 2017 oversight hearing on 'Evaluating Federal Offshore Oil and Gas Development on the Outer Continental Shelf,' North Carolina Farm Bureau conveys its…

Just 2 weeks ago, we learned that the oil and gas companies currently hold 7,950 approved drilling permits that they have not used.

Lifting regulations on the oil and gas industry, while giving them more of our oceans to play with is a dangerous combination.

Opening up the Atlantic Ocean to offshore drilling, we believe, is looking backwards and is not Maryland's energy choice.

The 2017-2022 Federal offshore oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf, that plan, as I understand, was just completed in January of this year.

It was not one-sided, it was really thoughtful.

The State of North Carolina is positioned to realize significant benefits from future Atlantic oil and natural gas development.