The House Committee on Natural Resources considers legislation about American energy production, mineral lands and mining, fisheries and wildlife, public lands, oceans, Native Americans, irrigation and reclamation.
Bruce Westerman
Republican • AR
Jared Huffman
Democrat • CA
Joseph Neguse
Democrat • CO
Robert J. Wittman
Republican • VA
Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democrat • NM
Tom McClintock
Republican • CA
Melanie Ann Stansbury
Democrat • NM
Paul Gosar
Republican • AZ
Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
Republican • AS
Val Hoyle
Democrat • OR
Daniel A. Webster
Republican • FL
Seth Magaziner
Democrat • RI
Jared Golden
Democrat • ME
Russell Fulcher
Republican • ID
Dave Min
Democrat • CA
Peter Stauber
Republican • MN
Maxine Dexter
Democrat • OR
Thomas P. TIFFANY
Republican • WI
Lauren Boebert
Republican • CO
Pablo José Hernández
Popular Democrat • PR
Cliff Bentz
Republican • OR
Emily Randall
Democrat • WA
Jennifer Kiggans
Republican • VA
Yassamin Ansari
Democrat • AZ
Sarah Elfreth
Democrat • MD
Wesley Hunt
Republican • TX
Adam Gray
Democrat • CA
Mike Collins
Republican • GA
Harriet Hageman
Republican • WY
Luz M. Rivas
Democrat • CA
Adelita S. Grijalva
Democrat • AZ
Mark E. Amodei
Republican • NV
Debbie Dingell
Democrat • MI
Tim Walberg
Republican • MI
Darren Michael Soto
Democrat • FL
Mike Ezell
Republican • MS
Celeste Maloy
Republican • UT
Julia Brownley
Democrat • CA
Addison P. McDowell
Republican • NC
Susie Lee
Democrat • NV
Jeff Crank
Republican • CO
Nicholas J. Begich
Republican • AK
Jeff Hurd
Republican • CO
Mike Kennedy
Republican • UT
Methane Pollution Accountability Act
The bill preserves existing BLM waste-prevention standards and levies royalties on previously vented/flared gas to incentivize waste reduction and raise federal revenue, while limiting future royalty expansions — a trade-off that tightens current incentives but raises industry costs, risks higher consumer prices and production impacts, and creates some regulatory uncertainty.
Wildfire Response and Readiness Act
The bill makes large, coordinated investments to expand wildfire prevention, restoration, community mitigation, monitoring, and workforce capacity—benefiting homeowners, Tribal communities, firefighters, and local economies—but does so through substantial recurring federal spending, added administrative complexity, increased smoke‑exposure risks for nearby residents, and several implementation and fairness trade‑offs.
To codify Secretary's Order 3434 of the Department of the Interior.
The bill makes federal coordination and DOI authority near gateway communities statutorily enforceable—helping communities and tribes get clearer federal support and faster approvals—but it creates binding obligations that can raise local costs, reduce future oversight, and risk legal conflicts with state, local, and tribal authorities.
GATOR Act of 2026
The bill directs a GAO study to provide evidence and transparency on limited ESA 'similarity of appearance' cases—helping state and local managers decide whether to adjust protections and control invasive reptiles—at the cost of taxpayer-funded study resources and with a risk of delayed action and limited scope.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Wild Horses Protection Act
The bill preserves a large, genetically diverse horse herd and increases monitoring transparency and planning, but does so at the cost of higher management expense and reduced flexibility—raising risks to park budgets and native ecosystems if the mandated herd or plan prove problematic.
Chama Basin Watershed Protection Act
The bill preserves watershed health and traditional mineral‑gathering rights by withdrawing land from new mining claims, but does so at the cost of foregone local mining revenue and added constraints on Forest Service resource management.
Military Readiness Through Resilient Lands Act
The bill improves environmental stewardship, long-term ecosystem tracking, and data-driven resilience for military installations—potentially speeding permitting and strengthening readiness—while imposing new costs, data-security risks, administrative burdens, and some constraints on local commanders' flexibility.
Historic Greenwood District—Black Wall Street National Monument Establishment Act
The bill secures federal protection, interpretation, and a structured local/descendant advisory role for the Historic Greenwood District—preserving an important site and expanding education—while creating new federal costs, potential land‑use and infrastructure burdens for nearby communities, and transparency and equity concerns around the temporary, unpaid advisory structure.
Critically Endangered Animals Conservation Act of 2026
The bill creates a dedicated, partially pre-funded mechanism and new grant authority to protect critically endangered species at home and abroad, increasing conservation funding and capacity while shifting spending control away from annual appropriations, adding administrative complexity, and risking inequities and some economic and operational burdens.
Crossett Experimental Forest Act of 2026
The bill transfers the Crossett Experimental Forest to Arkansas to support local research and management and reduce federal costs, but does so by waiving federal environmental and historic reviews and shifting upfront costs and some legal risks to the State.
Shows active legislation in this committee's pipeline. Controversiality scores and analysis are AI-generated from the 119th Congress.
Stance scores range from -1 (opposes) to +1 (supports), based on bills referred to this committee in the 119th Congress. Confidence dot shown for high-confidence scores.
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