Roger Marshall on Environment

Problem is over-regulations created by their Green New Deal

Marshall: Why are we dependent upon diesel imports? It's because of the Green New Deal policy that my opponent supports. His policies would fit in just right with Chuck Schumer. So if I would lose this seat, Adam Hamilton would give control of the Senate to Chuck Schumer, who would go back to his Green New Deal. Look, we've not had a new refinery built since 1978. We've lost 90 refineries since 1990. When I was born in El Dorado, we had three refineries. That's the problem right now is the refining capacity, because of over- regulations created by their Green New Deal and his attacks on American energy, on American agriculture.

Hamilton: He said that the war in Iran is not the problem [but that] the war in Ukraine is why we have record diesel prices? Nobody believes that.

Overturn EPA rules surrounding Waters of the US

Puddles are not wetlands; ditches are not navigable streams

"As a Kansas Wildlife Commissioner, I have seen first hand how ridiculous federal laws and regulations negatively affects farmers and our rural communities. Congress needs to protect farmers, fishermen, hunters and those generating energy from an unruly EPA."-- Roger Marshall

Loosen restrictions on predator control in Alaska.

Library of Congress Summary: This joint resolution nullifies the rule finalized by the Department of the Interior on Aug. 5, 2016, relating to non-subsistence takings of wildlife and public participation and closure procedures on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska.

Case for voting YES by House Republican Policy Committee: The Fish and Wildlife Service rule--which lays claim to more than 20% of Alaska--violates ANILCA (Alaska National Interest Land Conservation Act) and the Alaska Statehood Compact. Not only does [the existing 2016 rule] undermine Alaska`s ability to manage fish and wildlife upon refuge lands, it fundamentally destroys a cooperative relationship between Alaska and the federal government.

Case for voting NO by the Sierra Club (April 6, 2017):

• President Trump signed H.J. Res. 69, overturning the rule that banned `predator control` on federal wildlife refuges in Alaska unless `based on sound science in response to a conservation concern.`
• Any rule mentioning `sound science` is in trouble under a Trump administration.
• So what kinds of practices will the Trump administration now allow on our federal wildlife refuges? Activities that include shooting or trapping wolves while in their dens with pups, or hunting for grizzly bears from airplanes.
• It`s all about ensuring a maximum yield of prey species like elk, moose, and caribou for the real apex predator: humans. So if having more elk requires killing wolf pups in their dens, then so be it.
• The Obama administration`s rule (which Trump revoked) never tried to stop all hunting. Subsistence hunting was still allowed. What`s changed is that the predators on federal wildlife refuges are now under the control of the state of Alaska. And that makes them prey.