WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:
U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, and Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) led 60 members in the Senate and House in a letter (https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/download/arctic-refuge-lease-letter) condemning the Trump administration's plans to auction off sacred and sensitive lands within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas companies.
In the letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the lawmakers stress that there is no economic i...