Few lawmakers know how to effectively tackle energy, natural resources, and conservation issues. Someone who is making her mark is U.S. Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming.

Prior to becoming Wyoming’s at-large representative in 2023, Rep. Hageman spent 34 years as a trial attorney fighting radical environmentalists across areas spanning water issues to constitutional law. She primarily dealt with litigation involving the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), representing farmers, energy companies, ranchers, and landowners.

“I'm on the Judiciary Committee and Natural Resources Committee, so both of those committees really dovetail well with my history, my background, and my experience, and I think I'm very fortunate to be able to have that kind of experience here on Capitol Hill,” the two-term congresswoman told Townhall.com.

Like other Congressional Republicans, Rep. Hageman wants to see permitting reform swiftly passed this year. The House of Representatives cleared this landmark modernization bill, the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act, on December 18, 2025, by a 221–196 margin with significant Democrat support. But the Senate hasn’t taken up the bill yet. This week, E and E News reported that a bipartisan group of Senators convened over dinner to resume talks. The most available polling shows that Americans of all political........

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