Press Releases

• Bishop Statement on Obama’s Use of 12(a) in the Arctic and Atlantic
  December 20, 2016 – Today, President Obama banned offshore acreage in the Arctic and the Atlantic using section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA). Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement: “The extremes to which this president will go to appease special interests never ceases to amaze. This is not a m... More
• Outlook Not So Good for Obama Administration’s Long Awaited Coal Rewrite
  December 19, 2016 – Today, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) released the final Stream Protection Rule. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement: “The Obama administration jammed this futile, job-killing rule through under the wire. The only silver lining with today’s release is that their e... More
• President Signs "Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act"
  December 19, 2016 – On Friday, the President signed H.R. 6452 into law. The “Ensuring Access to Pacific Fisheries Act” implements the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean, the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacif... More

Headlines

• Missoulian: Congress Must Act on National Forests
  November 15, 2016 – By Dale Bosworth, retired chief of the U.S. Forest Service and former Regional Forester in Missoula, and Jack Blackwell is a retired Regional Forester for the California region of the Forest Service. Many of our national forests are in dire condition and Congress must take urgent action to address this worsening crisis... More
• Bloomberg: Fight Pipeline, Drill for Oil: Either Way, Tribes Want Control of Their Lands
  October 12, 2016 – By: Catherine Traywick The Southern Ute Indian Tribe of southwestern Colorado has a higher long-term credit rating than Wells Fargo & Co., and more oil and natural-gas wells than it has members. Welcome to the other side of the tribal land energy conundrum. While the Standing Rock Sioux have drawn considerable media co... More
• Wall Street Journal: It’s Time for the Feds to Get Out of Indian Country
  October 7, 2016 – By: Terry L. Anderson and Shawn Regan As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump court the minority vote, they have paid virtually no attention to one of the most impoverished groups—Native Americans. More than any other group, American Indians are shackled by bureaucratic red tape that deprives them of the same rights and di... More

Op-Eds

• The Audacity of Smothering Regulation
  November 21, 2016 – OP-ED: The Audacity of Smothering Regulation The Hill Chairman Rob Bishop Early in his tenure, President Obama pledged to pursue an "all-the-above" energy strategy. He then dedicated his administration to a smothering regulatory attack on the absolute majority of energy resources that American’s use in their daily liv... More
• Obama will Leave His Legacy at the Expense of Fishermen
  September 14, 2016 – OP-ED: Obama will Leave His Legacy at the Expense of Fishermen The Hill Chairman Rob Bishop When President Obama quadrupled the size of a marine national monument off the coast of Hawaii last month, he made history. At 583,000-square-miles, the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument is twice the size of Texas and ... More
• Legal protection for Good Samaritans who want to clean up mines
  September 1, 2016 – OP-ED: Legal protection for Good Samaritans who want to clean up mines By: Chairman Rob Bishop The biblical story of the Good Samaritan is a familiar one to virtually all young children. A man is robbed, brutally beaten, and left for dead. Two men pass him turning a blind eye to his predicament. A third man, however, ... More

Correspondence

• Deputy Director William Werkheiser to Rep. Gohmert
  October 7, 2016 – TO: Rep. Louie Gohmert FROM: U.S. Geological Survey Deputy Director William Werkheiser Dear Mr. Chairman: Thank you for your letter dated September 23, 2016, requesting information related to two scientific integrity incidents that occurred at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Energy Geochemistry Laboratory (EGL) Inorg... More
• Rep. Gohmert Letter to USGS Director Suzette Kimball
  September 23, 2016 – TO: The Honorable Suzette Kimball FROM: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Louie Gohmert Dear Director Kimball: The Committee on Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is conducting oversight of scientific misconduct and data manipulation at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).... More
• Chairman Bishop Letter to Director Ashe
  September 14, 2016 – TO: The Honorable Dan Ashe FROM: Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop Dear Director Ashe: On August 5, 2015, an Environmental Protection Agency-led crew ("EPA") discharged 3 million gallons of contaminated water from the Gold King Mine, located in San Juan County, Colorado into the Animas and the San Juan... More