John Hoeven: “I agree on the benefit, I am just wondering how you are going to handle the cost, and the mandatory nature.”

By partnering our coal and oil industries and using CO2 for enhanced oil recovery, we are creating an additional revenue stream to help keep our coal-fired power plants online.

This proposed rule will help provide greater certainty for our ranchers, energy producers and other stakeholders while ensuring the grasslands can be responsibly managed for multiple use.

Access to federal lands is vitally important for local economies, especially in North Dakota, where the Forest service manages more than one million acres.

This legislation contains more than 100 bipartisan bills, including provisions I authored that will make a real difference for North Dakota producers, which come in addition to the $12 billion in agriculture assistance we’re working to…