If you heat your house with natural gas directly, those prices are going to go up.
Martin Heinrich
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Martin Heinrich is a United States Senator from New Mexico, serving since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Heinrich previously represented New Mexico's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 6, 2009, to January 3, 2013. Throughout his political career, he has focused on issues such as renewable energy, healthcare, and economic development, advocating for policies that benefit New Mexico's diverse communities.
We will not allow a foreign mining company to threaten the Chama Watershed with radioactive uranium waste. That is unacceptable.
Back off. The Chama Watershed belongs to the acequia parciantes, Tribal communities, ranchers, and rural families who care for and depend on this landscape and its water — not a foreign mining company looking to exploit it for profit.
By attempting, yet again, to eliminate vast portions of these monuments, your Administration invites needless uncertainty to the stability that local communities, Tribes, land managers, scientists, recreation users, and businesses need.
The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments are national treasures. The American people deserve public lands policy grounded in law, science, respect for Tribal sovereignty, and stewardship—not political decisions…
All of these efforts that I mentioned will be meaningless if the independence of FERC is erased.
We're rolling this out obviously late in the game, and I'm a big believer in get what you can done in any given Congress.
I mean, we've always been modeling based on what's the worst-case scenario, what's the worst hour of the worst month.
We should absolutely do all that. I still think we're going to need to reform permitting and be able to get to yes or no faster.
We're working hard. We're trying to negotiate, you know, a middle ground, but I worry about the impact of the White House.
I think the biggest wild card is actually the White House because the White House continues to do things that sort of poison the well.
No matter where you look in the energy map, what they're doing is increasing costs.
Offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to minimize communities’ suffering all so the rich and powerful can profit.
At a time when energy prices are skyrocketing, the administration is hell-bent on political retribution instead of working to bring down costs for millions of Americans.
What Democrats should always keep in their minds is that you cannot create and manage the energy transition on the backs of consumers.
If we do see the level, the scale of natural gas generation that some people are proposing, it will markedly increase the cost of gas for other uses.
It connects us to the international price market, and we've seen this before in places like Australia.
We’ll have the conversation. We're rolling this out obviously late in the game, and I'm a big believer in get what you can done in any given Congress.
I do think that the interconnection queues are a perfect place to apply machine learning, AI, advanced modeling.
This is an administration that has chosen to take actions that have negatively impacted prices in so many different sectors.
If a company is driving the need for expensive new facilities, that company should pay for it — not families and small businesses. That’s the basic principle behind my GRID Savings Act.
I would also make the point that right now this administration is stripping those protections away in an effort to facilitate oil and gas drilling.
Our New Mexico Rural Veteran Health Care Access Act is a commonsense solution that directs the VA to allow veterans in these counties to receive the care they need, closer to home without unnecessary travel.





