Thank you very much, Senator.
I would urge you again to expedite--Secretary Salazar has committed to expedite this draft environmental assessment.
Even though our budget was based upon an assumption that an increase of royalties would go to 18.75 percent for both oil...
Even with such an increase, my presumption from what I have seen, would only cover a fraction of the BLM's cost to maint...
I would hope, with the leadership of this subcommittee, that we can see some august, robust support for the LWCF.
the way in which we could move forward with the true conservation agenda that fulfills the dreams of many in the conserv...
One of the proposals that we discussed quite seriously in the appropriations process last year, was an onshore inspectio...
So the obvious question is, how do we get from 14, let's say, to double that literally in the timeframe you're talking a...
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...