{"id":2176,"date":"2020-10-06T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:06:54","slug":"house-hearing-focuses-on-covid-19-royalty-breaks-to-energy-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/06\/house-hearing-focuses-on-covid-19-royalty-breaks-to-energy-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"House hearing focuses on COVID-19 royalty breaks to energy companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSyyK8NchOs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources: <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/KSyyK8NchOs>Interior\u2019s Royalty Cuts: Thoughtful Policy or Industry Giveaway? &#8211; October 6, 2020<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Interior\u2019s Royalty Cuts: Thoughtful Policy or Industry Giveaway?<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Tuesday, October 6, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nOn Tuesday, the <a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/subcommittees\/energy-and-mineral-resources>House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources<\/a> will hold a hearing titled &#8220;Interior\u2019s Royalty Cuts: Thoughtful Policy or Industry Giveaway?&#8221;\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe <a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/hearings\/interiors-royalty-cuts-thoughtful-policy-or-industry-giveaway>hearing will focus on the royalty cuts<\/a> the Trump administration has offered oil and gas drillers and mining corporations  during the coronavirus pandemic.  Across the west, the <a href=https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/>Bureau of Land Management<\/a> has issued hundreds of royalty cuts covering thousands of acres of public land, otherwise depriving taxpayers of millions of dollars in financial benefits.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nAt the request of <a href=https:\/\/grijalva.house.gov\/>Rep. Ra\u00fal M. Grijalva<\/a> (D-Arizona), the chair of the <a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/>House Committee on Natural Resources<\/a>,  the  <a href=https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/>Government Accountability Office<\/a> (GAO) has reviewed royalty relief applications and approvals, interviewed BLM officials in western state offices, and interviewed <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of the Interior<\/a> officials in Washington, D.C., over the last several months. GAO will present the <a href=https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/GAO-21-169T>findings of the  review<\/a> at the  hearing.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe hearing will be broadcast at 2pm Eastern on <a href=https:\/\/youtu.be\/KSyyK8NchOs>YouTube<\/a> and on <a href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NRDems\/>Facebook<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">Witness List <\/div>\r\nMr. Frank Rusco<BR>\r\nDirector, Natural Resources and Environment<BR>\r\nU.S. Government Accountability Office<BR>\r\nWashington, D.C.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nProf. Mark Squillace<BR>\r\nRaphael J. Moses Professor of Law<BR>\r\nUniversity of Colorado Law School<BR>\r\nBoulder, Colorado\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nMr. Jayson O\u2019Neill<BR>\r\nDirector<BR>\r\nWestern Values Project<BR>\r\nHelena, Montana\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Notice<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/naturalresources.house.gov\/hearings\/interiors-royalty-cuts-thoughtful-policy-or-industry-giveaway>Interior\u2019s Royalty Cuts: Thoughtful Policy or Industry Giveaway?<\/a> (October 6, 2020)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to the Trump administration, oil and gas drillers, as well as mining companies, are getting a break on royalties during the COVID-19 pandemic.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,11,19,20,1,14],"tags":[50,156,5,118,284,386,49,48,126],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-environment","category-health","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","tag-116th","tag-blm","tag-coronavirus","tag-doi","tag-energy","tag-gao","tag-hnrc","tag-house","tag-raul-grijalva","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-z6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hnrc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}