Oklahoma U.S. Reps. Frank Lucas, Markwayne Mullin and Stephanie Bice will be busy this week with House Committee hearings dealing with such energy topics as nuclear research investment and abandoned well clean up research.
The three are members of the House Science Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Lucas is the ranking Republican on the House Science Committee and Rep. Bice is a member. Rep. Mullin sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
POLITICO reported this week on some of the hearings.
“THIS WEEK IN COMMITTEE: There are a lot of bills going before committees this week in the energy and environment space. The House Science Committee will have a markup on Wednesday on legislation covering nuclear research investment ( H.R. 4819 (117)), abandoned well clean up research at the Department of Energy (H.R. 4270 (117)) and microelectronic research and development at DOE (H.R. 6291 (117)). The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s energy subpanel will also meet Wednesday for a legislative hearing on Rush’s (D-Ill.) bill on pipeline security and reliability (H.R. 6084 (117)).
The House Natural Resources Committee has a busy week ahead with a full committee mark up on a number of lands and wildlife legislation on Wednesday, including the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act ( H.R. 2773 (117)). The bill increases funds for fish and wildlife conservation by state agencies. The Water, Oceans and Wildlife subcommittee will meet Thursday to go over several more bills on wildlife and habitat conservation.
The committee’s subpanel on Energy and Mineral Resources will have an oversight hearing Thursday on the Department of Interior’s latest oil and gas lease sale in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The hearing will dive into how the leases impact the administration’s emissions cutting goals, including reducing emissions at least 50 percent by decade’s end. Democrats on the committee criticized the lease sale as “antithetical to U.S. climate goals,” while the administration retorts it is begrudgingly complying with a federal court order.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight panel is also meeting Thursday to discuss the energy impacts of cryptocurrency — which can consume enough electricity to rival some towns. And the House Agriculture Committee will be meeting with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the state of the rural economy.”
Source: POLITICO