FLAME Act -- wildfire suppression funding
Gov. Napolitano testimony
House Natural Resources Committee
April 10, 2008
Letters/Testimony
Funding for Managing Invasive Salt Cedar and Russian Olive Trees
Gov. Freudenthal, WGA Chairman
Robert Johnson, BuRec Commissioner
April 15, 2008
Funding for Managing Invasive Salt Cedar and Russian Olive Trees
Reserved Indian Water Rights
Susan Cottingham, Director, Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission -- testimony on behalf of WGA & WSWC
House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee On Water And Power
April 16, 2008
Aging water infrastructure
Tony Willardson, Deputy Director, Western States Water Council -- testimony on behalf of WGA & WSWC
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee On Water And Power
April 17, 2008
Definition of biomass for energy projects
Cooperation on the region's energy future
WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Members of the Western Electric Industry Leaders Group
May 19, 2008
FY2009 funding for Forest Service State and Private Forestry programs
WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Senators Byrd and Cochran and Congressmen Obey and Lewis
May 19, 2008
FY2009 funding for Forest Service State and Private Forestry programs
Comments on possible listing of Greater Sage Grouse under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act.
WGA Chair & Vice Chair
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
June 23, 2008
Highway funding
WGA Transportation Co-lead Governors (MT, NM, SD, UT, WA & WY)
House and Senate Leadership
June 23, 2008
Support for Forest Landscape Restoration Act of 2007
Governors Napolitano & Huntsman, co-lead Governors on Forest Health
House and Senate committee leadership and bill sponsors
July 8, 2008
Support for rescinding decision to stop accepting applications for solar permits
WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Jim Caswell, BLM Director
July 10, 2008
Support for rescinding decision to stop accepting applications for solar permits
Support for supplemental funding to repay non-wildfire forest accounts for funding used to fight wildfires this year
Governors Napolitano & Huntsman, co-lead Governors on Forest Health
House and Senate appropriations committee leadership
September 17, 2008
Calls for swift adoption, implementation of national energy plan
WGA Chair & Vice Chair
President-elect Obama
November 21, 2008
Calls for swift adoption, implementation of national energy plan
Collaboration on western electricity issues
WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Western electric utility CEOs
January 6, 2009
National energy policy and answers to Committee follow up questions (1/30/09)
Dianne R. Nielson (UT) on behalf of the Western Governors' Association
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
January 8, 2009
National energy policy and answers to Committee follow up questions (1/30/09)
Policies to encourage building new transmission lines
WGA Chair & Vice Chair
Senate and House Leadership
January 27, 2009
Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement (FLAME) Act
Indian Water Rights Settlements
Ad Hoc Committee on Indian Water Rights
Interior Secretary Salazar
April 2, 2009
The Impacts of Climate Change on America’s National Parks
John Harja, Director, Public Lands Policy Coordination, Utah on behalf of the Western Governors’ Wildlife Council
House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands
April 7, 2009
Support for continuation of the Wildland Fire Leadership Council
Western Governors’ Association, National Association of Counties & National Association of State Foresters
Secretaries Salazar, Vilsack & Napolitano
May 1, 2009
Support for continuation of the Wildland Fire Leadership Council
Transmission legislation
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
May 1, 2009
Nuclear waste transportation policy
Governors Bill Richardson and Butch Otter
Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu
May 21, 2009
Vehicle mileage standards
Co-lead Governors for Alternative Transportation Fuels
President Barack Obama
May 26, 2009
FY2010 Interior Appropriations for Hazardous Fuels Reduction and the Forest Landscape Restoration Program
WGA and 67 other organizations
Chair and Ranking Memnber of Senate Appropriations Committee
June 3, 2009
Proposals for Reforming National Transmission Policy
Rich Halvey, WGA
U.S. House Committee On Energy And Commerce Subcommittee On Energy And Environment
June 12, 2009
Endorsement of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. to be next U.S. Ambassador to China
Western Governors
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
June 24, 2009
Endorsement of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. to be next U.S. Ambassador to China
Appropriations for agriculture programs
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
House and Senate Appropriations Committee leadership
July 2, 2009
Appropriations for energy and water programs -- House -- Senate
Refuting false claims about relationship between WGA and Western Climate Initiative
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Duane Parde, President, National Taxpayers Union
July 6, 2009
Refuting false claims about relationship between WGA and Western Climate Initiative
Tax credit for conservation easements
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman
August 20, 2009
Comments on Mercury Storage Notice of Intent
Commerce appropriations, Interior and EPA appropriations, Homeland Security appropriations
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
House & Senate Appropriations Committee Leadership
September 22, 2009
Commerce appropriations, Interior and EPA appropriations, Homeland Security appropriations
Support for WECC "synchrophaser" proposal
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Secretary Chu, USDOE
October 12, 2009
Water Management and Climate Variability
Tony Willardson, Western States Water Council
House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water and Power
October 27, 2009