Witnesses

Honorable Sally Jewell, Secretary
Mike Connor, Deputy Secretary

Committee Members Present

Senator Lisa Murkowski introduced The American Mineral Security Act of 2015, a bill supporting the development of domestic supplies of critical minerals, as well as the infrastructure to support research and education

The Western Governors’ Association sent a letter to Congress expressing their support for two wildfire-related bills.

The Obama Administration and Bureau of Land Management introduced new regulations on hydraulic fracturing on federally-managed land.

The Senate passed Senators Rob Portman and Jeanne Shaheen’s Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015 as part of the Senate "vote-a-rama"

The Senate FY 2016 budget includes changes to the criteria for how the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) determines the impact of energy efficiency on the federal budget.

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee passed the Weather Research and Forecast Innovation Act of 2015.

The House passed Representative Lamar Smith’s (R-TX) Secret Science Reform Act of 2015 which impacts science used in Environmental Protection Agency rulemaking.