ANCHORAGE -A State Department announcement extending the time period for federal agencies to review the Keystone XL Pipeline project is garnering bipartisan condemnation from Alaska’s congressional delegation. Environmentalists have hailed Friday’s decision in Washington D.C., with members of the All Risk, No Reward Coalition telling CNN that “every day without Keystone XL is a day that we keep hi... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young today released this statement following the announcement by Rio Tinto to end its stakeholder interests in Pebble Mine by divesting its 19.1 percent ownership of Northern Dynasty Minerals. “While disappointed, I’m not at all surprised to see stakeholders in Alaskan development projects ending longstanding relationships within our state, especially wi... Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young today voted in favor of H.J. Res. 59, The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, legislation that would establish a two-year budget for the federal government and set forth appropriate budget levels for the remainder of Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015. The bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 332-94. “The budget deal I supported today in th... Read more »
Congressman Don Young has the right idea when it comes to state management of federal lands. Let the states do it. The federal government really cannot afford to manage its own land. It is critically over spending. It's deficit is in the trillions of dollars, and it is on an unsustainable, insatiable diet of debt. Young criticized the performance of the federal lands management agencies in Alaska ... Read more »
“States across the country, including Alaska, have a proven record of success in managing public lands,” said Congressman Young. “Alaska alone manages millions of acres of state parks, forests, historic sites, a network of trails and public use cabins. This legislation addresses the major failure by our federal land management agencies to effectively manage our public lands and provides State agencies the opportunity to do better.” Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, wrote to President Obama to express their concerns over new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. The EPA is reportedly scheduled to release the new regulations by Friday. Such rules would disproportionately affect fossil fuel-based electricity plants... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act, with Alaskan Congressman Don Young’s support. The legislation would open new offshore areas to exploration by requiring the Obama Administration to create a new five year leasing plan for the United States’ offshore energy resources in areas containing the most oil and gas potential. Addi... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Natural Resources Committee today approved 14 bills, including two pieces of energy legislation sponsored by Alaskan Congressman Don Young. The bills now head to the House floor for consideration by the full House. H.R. 1964, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act, would remove governmental roadblocks to ensure that Alaska’s oil and gas resources in the Natio... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young released the following statement today regarding the proposed regulations of hydraulic fracturing on federal and tribal lands announced by the Department of Interior: “Today’s announcement by the Department of Interior is very disappointing, but I have come to expect nothing less from an Administration beholden to environmental special interests. Th... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the House Natural Resources Committee introduced two bills to protect and expand U.S. onshore energy production on federal lands. The bills would remove government roadblocks and hurdles that delay American energy production, promote production of our oil shale resources, and ensure that oil and natural gas resources in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) ar... Read more »
