{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://pingree.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6757", "WATCH: Ranking Member Pingree Blasts Burgum for Sabotaging Renewable Energy as Gas Prices Soar", "2026-04-20", "2026", "2026-04", "Democrat", "House", "ME", "Chellie Pingree", "P000597", "pingree.house.gov", "pingree", "https://pingree.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, during the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee hearing for the Fiscal Year 2027 budget request with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) condemned the Trump Administration\u2019s aggressive campaign against renewable energy as gas prices soar. In her opening remarks, Pingree outlined the Administration\u2019s clear pattern of propping up Big Oil and sabotaging renewable energy projects, while also failing to uphold the Department\u2019s mission to protect and manage our natural resources, to uphold our trust and treaty obligations, and to follow the science.\n\n\u201cAll of these dirty deals are to benefit industry. And it\u2019s at the expense of the American people. Americans are now paying an average of $4.04 for a gallon of gas. According to Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, gas prices could peak at $4.36 a gallon, costing the average household $740 more for gas this year,\u201d Pingree said. \u201cSo it makes no sense to me why this administration would be actively sabotaging renewable energy, which we know is the cheaper and more affordable energy option for families. Honestly, it just makes me very angry. This administration\u2019s policies are causing an affordability crisis and there seems to be a lack of focus on what the Department\u2019s mission actually is.\u201d\n\nThe fiscal year 2027 budget requests $15 billion for the Department of the Interior:\n\nRenewable Energy: cuts $45 million from the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and eliminates renewable energy funding which includes onshore and offshore wind energy.\n\nBureau of Land Management: cuts $480 million and slashes funding for Wildlife and Aquatic Habitat Management by $139 million, which includes funding for sage grouse and threatened and endangered species.\n\nUS Fish and Wildlife (FWS): cuts $526 million, decreasing the National Wildlife Refuge System by 20 percent, eliminates grant programs managed by States, Tribes, and other nations, and moves NOAA\u2019s National Marine Fisheries Service into FWS ($125 million transfer).\n\nNational Park Service: cuts $1.06 billion\n\nOperation of the National Park System: cuts $760 million or 26 percent. The skinny budget suggests they may change the funding formula to defund or drastically cut support for smaller or less visited park units.\n\nNational Recreation and Preservation: cuts $86 million or 93 percent\n\nHistoric Preservation Fund: cuts $170 million, or a 94 percent cut, and eliminates everything except funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).\n\nConstruction: cuts $40 million, or a 45 percent cut.\n\nU.S. Geological Survey (USGS): cuts $526 million, a 37 percent reduction that eliminates ecosystems, and dramatically cuts funding for core science and natural hazards.\n\nBureau of Indian Affairs: cuts $378 million, including the elimination of the Indian Guaranteed Loan program and the Indian Land Consolidation program, and a 34 percent reduction in funds that support self-governance and directly fund tribal operations.\n\nBureau of Indian Education: cuts $436 million, a 32 percent reduction; some eliminations include funding for Tribal Colleges and Universities, Replacement School Construction, and Early Child and Family Development.\n\nWildland Fire: Transfers all U.S. Forest Service Wildland Fire Management functions to DOI.\n\n+++\n\n###", 1, "2026-04-21T05:46:59Z", "2026-04-21T05:48:34Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://pingree.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6757"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6847959011793137, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}