There are 65 million gallons of acid mine runoff every day flowing into the Lackawanna River, compared to that 3 million in the Animas River spill.

While the Gold King Mine spill was damaging, this spill pales in comparison to a series of even bigger toxic spills.

Thank you for that, Administrator McCarthy.

I want to take this moment to urge Congress to turn its attention to reauthorizing the AML, so we can continue the important work in reducing the impact of abandoned mines.

Now that we have established that mining companies are not contributing to cleaning up their own messes, what are the sources of funding that you have for mine cleanup?

I thank the Vice Chairman, Mrs. Lummis, for saying out loud that climate change is real.

If we are going to move forward with fracking as part of the solution under the all-of-the-above energy strategy, we need to make sure that the process, the entire process, is safe, from start to finish.

There are plenty of cases of oil and gas drilling contaminating water supplies.

BLM is currently working toward implementation of a rule that would modernize horribly outdated oil and gas regulations on Federal land.

Prison overcrowding presents the most significant threat to the safety and security of BOP staff and inmates.

I awoke this morning to find news that last night, in the wee hours, House Republican leadership advanced an amendment to allow the display of the Confederate battle flag in Federal cemeteries and to allow National Park Service agents to…

The Bureau of Land Management is currently working toward implementation of a rule that would modernize horribly outdated oil and gas regulations on Federal land. My amendment would strike a section of this bill that would halt this…