Bruce Westerman
Chairman of the full committee · House Committee on Natural Resources
15 articles · 17 transcripts · 18 clips
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Bill named for Don Young to help tribes restore buffalo heads to the full House
A bill named for the late Don Young that would help tribes restore buffalo herds is headed to the full House. An earlier $14 million authorization got cut.
Duffy announces $250 million federal grant to finish Port MacKenzie rail link
Duffy brought $250 million to finish the Port MacKenzie rail link, started in 2013, and promised to have dirt turning by spring at "Trump speed."
A House committee cited Alaska while advancing a drilling bill for elsewhere
“is a common sense reform that removes a duplicative step in the oil and gas permitting process”
House committee advances bill treating hatchery fish as wild under Endangered Species Act
“In many cases, water or power users who get their supplies from federal infrastructure projects are asked to foot the bill for these hatcheries.”
House passes Begich bill to open treaty talks with Japan over Alaska Native handicrafts made with bird parts
“protects the cultural heritage and economic rights of Alaska Native artists by requiring clarifications to the Migratory Bird Treaty with Japan and corresponding updates to domestic regulations.”
House panel advances bill to let Alaska Native artists sell work with feathers
A Tlingit artist was made to strip the feathers off his own work and hand them to federal agents. A House committee just advanced the bill named for him.
A cattle parasite Alaska will never see could still cost Alaskans
Screwworm can't survive an Alaska winter, but Alaskans buy beef from the herds it threatens — and we're last in line on price.
The sea lions in Congress's salmon bill breed in Southeast Alaska
A House bill would expand sea lion removals to protect Columbia River salmon. The Steller sea lions involved breed on rookeries in Southeast Alaska.
A permitting bill could open the federal fast lane to Alaska projects
A bill would drop the federal fast-track permitting threshold to $50 million — opening the program to Alaska projects too small to qualify until now.
The program mapping Alaska's unknown ground expires this year
Most of Alaska's interior has never been mapped with modern tools. The federal program that's been fixing that runs out at the end of this year.
The federal unit handling Alaska's MMIP cases can't return a family's calls
The federal unit handling Alaska's missing and murdered Indigenous cases hasn't returned one family's calls in 10 months, a Crow Nation professor told Congress.
Foreign-visitor park fee survives a House vote, with stakes for Alaska
“This is simply economic self-sabotage”
A renewed federal fund to fix public lands could land hardest in Alaska
“We look forward to working with them to send this bill to President Trump's desk in time for America's 250th birthday celebrations”
Begich bill to expand commerce in Alaska sea otter handicrafts gets first congressional hearing
A new bill in Congress that asks, what otter we do?
House Republicans examine $24.8M in federal attorney fees to environmental groups
House Republicans examined $24.8M in federal attorney fee awards to environmental nonprofits from 2019 to 2024. • Critics say uncapped fee-shifting laws let nonprofits bill at rates far above market rates, sometimes 700 percent markups. • Alaska mining, oil, and timber projects have faced years of litigation delays funded partly by taxpayer attorney fee awards.
