Renewal revenue sharing letters
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Congressional sponsors of legislation -- Senator Tester and Representative Gosar
March 26, 2013
Sharing royalties from renewable energy projects on federal lands
Letters/Testimony 2012
Invasive species letter to Congress
WGA Chairman and Vice Chairman
Leadership of House and Senate natural resources committees
February 25, 2013
Dear Representatives Hastings and Markey and Senators Wyden and Murkowski:
According to the National Invasive Species Council and the Healthy Habitats Coalition, over 100 million acres of land and waters in the U.S. are infested with invasive species. These infestations cost taxpayers more than $120 billion annually. Aquatic and terrestrial invasive species are creating economic and ecologic damage across our Western landscapes and Pacific Islands.
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WGA Chair and Vice Chair
House and Senate Leadership
December 7, 2012
Dear Speaker Boehner, Majority Leader Reid, Minority Leader Pelosi, Minority Leader McConnell:
Access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy is vital to a growing and prosperous society. For this reason, the Western Governors support energy diversity and independence through the development of all domestic energy resources. Part of our diverse energy portfolio is at risk with the expiration of the renewable energy production tax credit (PTC), which expires for wind at the end of 2012. Many Western Governors have long supported the PTC as a way to help us realize clean energy goals, build our manufacturing base, create jobs, lower energy costs, and strengthen our domestic energy security....
Sage grouse habitat restoration
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
House and Senate Leadership
October 25, 2012
Support for supplemental funding for post-wildfire sage-grouse habitat rehabilitation and restoration work
NIDIS reauthorization
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Reps. Hall and Johnson and Sens. Rockefeller and Hutchison
October 25, 2012
Support for reauthorization of the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
Letter to Sec. Salazar and sec. Vilsack on Forest Health
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Secretary Salazar and Secretary Vilsack
August 27, 2012
letter to House on sharing renewables royalties
WGA Chairman and Vice Chairman
U.S. Representatives Heck, Heinrich, Gosar and Thompson
August 8, 2012
Support for sharing royalties and lease revenues from solar and wind projects developed on federal lands with states and counties
Wildfire Policy and Funding letter to Congress
Govs. Herbert, Hickenlooper, Otter and Kitzhaber
House and Senate Leadership
July 11, 2012
Renewables Leasing 5-30-12
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Senators Tester, Reid, Risch, Heller and Udall
May 30, 2012
Support for Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act (S. 1775)
NM groundwater damages
Pam Inmann, WGA Executive Director
USDA Secretary Vilsack and Interior Secretary Salazar
May 25, 2012
Potentially precedent setting natural resource damage case in New Mexico related to groundwater
Funding for SRS and PILT
Chair and Vice Chair
Chair and Ranking Member of Senate and House transportation committees
May 14, 2012
support funding for the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act and the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program
WGWC Letter to USDOT
John Harja, Chair, Western Governors Wildlife Council
Secretary LaHood, USDOT
April 3, 2012
Tourism Strategy Comments
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Secretary Bryson and Secretary Salazar
March 13, 2012
FICOR Comments
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Bob Abbey, Chairman of the Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation
February 16, 2012
Comments on federal strategy to coordinate recreation policies, programs and procedures
WEIL Letter 2012
Governor Gregoire, WGA Chair
Western Electric Industry Leaders
January 24, 2012
Transmission planning, siting and permitting
Western governors urge families to take it outside
WGA Chair and Vice Chair
Headwaters News Op-Ed
January 12, 2012
Western governors urge families to take it outside