House Committee on Natural Resources
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Sep 24, 2026
Miranda GreenHOST
Um, and they're calling it a critical piece of legislation aimed at addressing the escalating threat of catastrophic wildfires.
Miranda GreenHOST
Critics on the House Natural Resources Committee call it a logging bill, which has been cynically masquerading as a community wildfire protection measure.
Miranda GreenHOST
And I have to be honest, Emily, it's got really mixed support.
Miranda GreenHOST
We have the logging industry that is backing this, and we have environmental groups like The Nature Conservancy backing it, too.
Miranda GreenHOST
And they're calling it a critical piece of legislation aimed at addressing the escalating threat of catastrophic wildfires.
Miranda GreenHOST
Critics on the House Natural Resources Committee call it a logging bill, which has been cynically masquerading as a community wildfire protection measure.
Miranda GreenHOST
And I have to be honest, Emily, it's got really mixed support worldwide.
Miranda GreenHOST
We have the logging industry that is backing this, and we have environmental groups like the Nature Conservancy backing it too.
Greg DworkinPANELIST
Yeah, it should be fairly large.
David WaldmanHOST
Yeah, which, let's see, at the time he was then newly elected as the head of the House Resources Committee.
David WaldmanHOST
It then goes on to say, Young is best known for his rabbit attacks on ecologists.
David WaldmanHOST
Animal rights advocate Mary Tyler Moore she's also an animal rights activist, primarily known as an actress, once read a poem about the cruelty of steel jaw leg hold traps for the Merchant Marine subcommittee at the time, where Young previously served.
Pete StauberHOST
We have a great episode for you today.
Pete StauberHOST
Joining me for this episode is one of my fantastic colleagues, Representative Bruce Westerman, Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee.
Pete StauberHOST
Welcome to the podcast, Bruce.
Pete StauberHOST
Great to be with you, Pete.
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Bruce WestermanGUEST
She's working really hard.
Bruce WestermanGUEST
She's working with Senator Whitehouse on a bipartisan version in the Senate.
Bruce WestermanGUEST
I stay connected with them, with staff in the Senate and the House Natural Resources Committee.
Bruce WestermanGUEST
continues to talk and to work through the issues.
Sean BurnsGUEST
Trump has no humility and no, I would say, no manners and no sense of history.
Laura CoatesHOST
Well, Congressman, I want to bring you in here because you are the top Democrat on the National Resources Committee, which has oversight on federal lands.
Laura CoatesHOST
And you have been vowing to use that power to investigate projects like the arch.
Laura CoatesHOST
If Democrats win back control of the House, what can your committee do to stop the arch that the courts cannot?
Phillip OlsonHOST
Uh, it looks like the one that's kinda moving forward is the 9621, which is the Northwest Endangered Salmon Predation Prevention Act.
Phillip OlsonHOST
It just passed out of the Natural, the House Natural Resources Committee.
Phillip OlsonHOST
Would you support this bill in your current form? Would you kinda talk about that a little bit and what you might do federally for us with that?
John BraunGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Rebecca KnuffkeGUEST
And the House just introduced their bill this June and had a field hearing.
Rebecca KnuffkeGUEST
The House Natural Resources Committee had a field hearing in Arkansas.
Rebecca KnuffkeGUEST
And since then, we've already gotten 247 bipartisan members of Congress on the bill.
Rebecca KnuffkeGUEST
And that's a very short period of time.
Mary TrumpHOST
But Freedom 250 has also faced questions about how that money was raised.
Mary TrumpHOST
On July 2nd, Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee released a report alleging that some donors intended to contribute to the bipartisan America 250 organization were instead giving banking information for Freedom 250 and that others were pressured to redirect contributions.
Mary TrumpHOST
Freedom 250 called the allegations categorically false and a partisan smear, which means that the allegations are true, almost certainly.
Mary TrumpHOST
And private donations aren't the only money involved.
Leigh Ann CaldwellGUEST
When you ask Democrats in Washington who are on Capitol Hill, they are planning a long list of investigations into this should And they're now saying when they take control of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections.
Leigh Ann CaldwellGUEST
I spoke with Congressman Jared Huffman last week, who will be, if the Democrats win, the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee that oversees a lot of these projects.
Leigh Ann CaldwellGUEST
And he is already teed up.
Leigh Ann CaldwellGUEST
at least a dozen investigations into many of these projects and beyond.
Liz LandersHOST
What are Democrats saying that would happen if they retake power after the midterms?
Leigh Ann CaldwellPANELIST
So I talked to Congressman Jared Huffman, who is the ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee in the House, just this week about all of this.
Leigh Ann CaldwellPANELIST
If Democrats take control, he will be the chair.
Leigh Ann CaldwellPANELIST
He oversees the Park Service budget, which oversees all of these renovations that are happening.
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