Senator Romney today welcomed an announcement from the Department of the Interior that it has invested more than $5.5 million in fiscal year 2022 funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to advance wildfire resilience work and support fuels management projects in Utah on 24,490 acres of land across the state.
Bipartisan legislation authored by Senators Romney, Peters, Burr, and Hagerty to ensure government agencies are properly using and recycling batteries from the federal fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) has passed the Senate. Properly recycling EV batteries can help recover valuable minerals like cobalt that are essential to the production of these batteries, but are often sourced from entities with ties to foreign adversaries like the Chinese government.
Includes needed permitting and process review reforms, provides regulatory certainty, and expedites permitting of key projects such as the Mountain Valley Pipeline
SALT LAKE CITY— Today, Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah against President Biden’s
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives Brad Wilson toured areas connected to and dependent on the survival of the Great Salt Lake.
The Senate passed the Great Salt Lake Recovery Act, legislation introduced by Senator Romney to study historic drought conditions and protect the long-term health of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Senators Romney and Hickenlooper’s Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Recovery Act passed out of the Senate ENR Committee. This bipartisan legislation would continue protecting four threatened and endangered native fish species in the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins by extending conservation programs for one year to allow Upper Basin communities the time to develop a long-term management plan.
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) today introduced the Great Salt Lake Recovery Act, legislation to study historic drought conditions and protect the long-term health of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
The Office of Senator Romney released a report detailing the policy and constituent service accomplishments at the halfway mark of Romney’s Senate term.
While home in Utah during the Senate state work period, Senator Romney joined the signing of the Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Agreement in Monument Valley. Later in the day, he curled with the Ukrainian National Curling Team at the Utah Olympic Oval in Kearns and attended the IFSC World Cup in Salt Lake City.
Senator Romney joined U.S. Interior Secretary Haaland, Utah Governor Cox, Utah Lt. Governor Henderson, and Navajo Nation President Nez for the signing of the Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Agreement.
Senator Romney joined colleagues in sending a letter to White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Brenda Mallory demanding they adhere to the National Environmental Policy Act requirements and undergo the proper analysis and public comment period for the Biden Administration’s goal of conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.