Lawmakers grill Zinke on offshore drilling plans, energy focus at House hearing

摘要

Lawmakers from coastal states during a March 15 congressional hearing slammed the head of the U.S. Department of the Interior over the Trump administration’s proposal to open U.S. waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. “The new DOI strategic plan eliminates all reference to climate change but makes sure that the first three words in the new departmental vision statement are, to quote, ‘promote energy dominance,’” Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., said at a House Committee on Natural Resources oversight hearing on policy priorities and the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget request.