Washington, March 3 -- Representative Jared Huffman issued the following press release:
Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) led 60 members in the House and Senate in condemning the Trump administration's plans to auction off sacred and sensitive lands within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas companies.
The administration's push comes despite two failed lease sales that exposed drilling in the Refuge as an economic fantasy. The first sale in 2021 generated less than one percent of projected revenue, while the second in 2025 received zero bids. Today, no oil com...