Haaland and deputy interior secretary testified before the Senate Natural resources committee. The senators, most of whom are from western states, asked about increasing Domestic Oil Production in the biden administrations interior Budget Priorities for 2024. The administration is requesting 18. 9 billion from the department as an increase of 2 million from 2023. This morning, the committee will be discussing the president s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget for the department of interior and other items within his purview. Id like to welcome secretary holland, deputy secretary boudreau back to the committee as well as interior budget director, denise flanagan. I wanna thank you all for joining us this morning to set the scene. I think its important to note for contexts that the congress provide the department an additional 48. 1 billion in the last 19 months including 47. 3 billion and targeted investments to the bipartisan infrastructure law and Inflation Reduction Act and 779 million
We are looking at the reliably of the electric grid, with state utility were presented to us. You are watching live coverage on cspan 3. My heart is full of gratitude. That is the thought right now. To all of you, to my colleagues, to the staff, being the chairman of the house and conference committee, is the ultimate thing in congress. This is been the best. We have a whole other year ahead of us. Thank you for your service. [ applause ]. We have a lot of work to do. Go ahead and get started. State utility regulators have challenges. They have affordable electricity. They have this during this congress. They understand what drives the growing reliability crisis. This is from the entire electricity portfolio over an extended period of time. They have different retail choices. We are relying more on transitional organizations. This is due to environmental growing regulations and agencies. Fans will be on foster fuel generation, and market distortions. These factors are contributing to p
Understanding with interior secretary trent eight Environmental Protection agency chief of staff dan utech at the Labor Department in washington d. C. The agreements focus on creating union jobs and Clean Energy Economy. Well also have a panel of Committee Stakeholders on their experiences in advancing these goals. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [cheering] [applause] good afternoon everyone. I want to start the program with a warm welcome to the department of labor to in this our partnership across the federal government the signing of two separate memorandums of understanding between the department of labor and the department of the interior Environmental Protection agency. I am to recent Deputy Director of the jobs a initiative here at dol. Good Jobs Initiative help support theti collaboration between these agencies as we aim to realize the vision are President Biden. Under the leadership of our respective leaders. This work and today
Understanding with interior secretary trent eight Environmental Protection agency chief of staff dan utech at the Labor Department in washington d. C. The agreements focus on creating union jobs and Clean Energy Economy. Well also have a panel of Committee Stakeholders on their experiences in advancing these goals. [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [background noises] [cheering] [applause] good afternoon everyone. I want to start the program with a warm welcome to the department of labor to in this our partnership across the federal government the signing of two separate memorandums of understanding between the department of labor and the department of the interior Environmental Protection agency. I am to recent Deputy Director of the jobs a initiative here at dol. Good Jobs Initiative help support theti collaboration between these agencies as we aim to realize the vision are President Biden. Under the leadership of our respective leaders. This work and today
My heart is full of gratitude. That is the thought right now. To all of you, to my colleagues, to the staff, being the chairman of the house and conference committee, is the ultimate thing in congress. This is been the best. We have a whole other year ahead of us. Thank you for your service. [ applause ]. We have a lot of work to do. Go ahead and get started. State utility regulators have challenges. They have affordable electricity. They have this during this congress. They understand what drives the growing reliability crisis. This is from the entire electricity portfolio over an extended period of time. They have different retail choices. We are relying more on transitional organizations. This is due to environmental growing regulations and agencies. Fans will be on foster fuel generation, and market distortions. These factors are contributing to premature retirement for most of our reliable and most dispatched resources. As of the increased connected grid, they have a much wider im