Even though our budget was based upon an assumption that an increase of royalties would go to 18.75 percent for both oil and natural gas, let me just reassure the members of this s...
Let me just say right up front. It is quite--it is a lot cheaper to drill on private land than it is on public lands.
We want to encourage the development of offshore wind, and so we want to keep our auction process as simple as possible.
I'm especially grateful that we had the opportunity to discuss with him the potential for offshore wind development to c...
I'm still about safety and environmental protection.
I know Senator Murkowski is going to get into this, and she's raised a very important question about the difference betw...
But also the leasing reforms that we have applied are to provide greater certainty to the industry themselves that if th...
And, frankly, they also, deserve the opportunity of, evaluating, and commenting on the procedures to insure that they ar...
We hope to have all of that in place for competitive leasing later this year.
Despite a political scene that is so divisive and dysfunctional at so many levels, Americans from all walks of life and ...
I want to thank the witnesses for their excellent testimony and for your skillful leadership of your agencies.