Items Tagged with 'Bruce Westerman'

The House on Thursday passed a bill to speed up environmental reviews for forest management and wildfire treatment projects following fires that that have ravaged Los Angeles in recent weeks. 

In this joint opinion piece, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., highlight legislation they recently introduced to reform the Endangered Species Act.

The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Wednesday to restore automatic protections for species listed as “threatened," as the Biden administration moved to roll back a Trump-era overhaul of the way the Endangered Species Act is implemented.