Tag: Energy / Natural Resources

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke with Steve Pearce, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. They discussed the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and forest management. Watch the full exchange HERE. Daines and Pearce discussed the importance of the LWCF: Daines: First of all, I want to give a heartfelt thanks to each of you and your willingness to serve in these very important roles. I truly look forward to working with each one of you once you are confirmed. Assistant Secretary Haustveit, it’s

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke with Jon Raby, the Nevada State Director for the Bureau of Land Management, and Christopher French, Associate Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. They discussed his “Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act” to resolve Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) in Montana, improving access for recreation, wildlife management, and grazing.   Watch the full exchange HERE. Daines’ opening remarks: Thank you, Chairman Barrasso and Ranking Member Cortez Masto, for holding this hearing. Included in today’s agenda is one of my bills, the Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act. As a fifth

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines and Representative Troy Downing (MT-02) today introduced the “Lower Yellowstone River Native Fish Conservation Act.” The bill reaffirms that the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) retains exclusive ownership, operational control, and financial responsibility for the Lower Yellowstone fish bypass channel, built to support the recovery of the endangered pallid sturgeon. Daines’ bill provides critical protections for irrigators, ensuring that local communities are not unfairly charged for federal projects and are protected from bearing the costs of long-term conservation efforts. “Montana’s local communities should not be unfairly burdened by costly federal projects. I’m thrilled to work alongside Representative

U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) led a group of his Republican colleagues in introducing a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recent Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process. This new rule would significantly raise royalties, rates, minimum bids, costs and bonding requirements for oil and gas producers on federal lands making it virtually impossible for small energy producers to continue to operate. “Joe Biden set out on an anti-American energy war path on Day One, and ever since Montana’s small oil and gas producers have been a target. This new BLM rule will drive

“Now we know the Biden administration will flat out lie in order to enact its climate agenda.” U.S. Senator Steve Daines, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement today in response to Biden administration Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan accusing Montana’s Colstrip Power Plant of “cheating the system” on clean air quality standards: “The Biden administration’s accusation that Colstrip is ‘cheating the system’ is a reprehensible lie and an attack on Montanans and our Montana way of life. The crushing mandates and regulations the Biden EPA issued last week were bad enough.