Rush Holt: “This bill was drafted without any attempt at bipartisan or bicameral cooperation.”

It would require drilling in important fisheries and sensitive environments like Bristol Bay in Alaska and the Arctic Ocean, all without enacting key drilling safety reforms, following one of the greatest environmental disasters in our…

These Republican drilling bills would elevate speed over safety while opening huge new swaths of public land.

I think it is important to ask really what this is all about, just not get lost in the weeds.

Ranking Member Markey and Representative Grijalva and I will be introducing legislation that would ensure that large companies extracting minerals belonging to the taxpayer from public lands pay for the privilege of doing so, as they do…