Rush Holt: “Oil spills don't recognize international boundaries.”

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

This kind of legislation exists in a fantasy land where President Obama is somehow shutting down U.S. energy production, not in the real world.

I believe our parks are too precious a resource for us simply to abandon our responsibility in that matter.

Unfortunately, while these two bills will improve our understanding of critical and strategic minerals, other pieces of legislation that we are considering today represent nothing more than huge giveaways to the mining industry and…