page_title: Kristi Noem
section_title: Energy and environment
hierarchical_section_title: Kristi Noem / U.S. House of Representatives / Tenure / Energy and environment
caption_attribution_description: English: Congresswomen Donna Edwards, left, Kristi Noem, center, and Sheila Jackson Lee, right, present the wreath during the Women in the Military Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery on May 22, 2013. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Christofer P. Baines
context_page_description: Kristi Lynn Noem is an American politician serving as the 33rd and current governor of South Dakota since January 5, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was the U.S. Representative for South Dakota's at-large congressional district from 2011 to 2019 and a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011. Noem was elected governor in 2018 and is South Dakota's first female governor.
context_section_description: Noem has said that the U.S. must end its dependence on foreign oil. To achieve that goal, Noem says Congress should encourage conservation of existing resources. She supports continuing ethanol subsidies that benefit her state. Noem opposes ending federal subsidies for oil companies.
  Noem supported the Keystone XL Pipeline and promised to continue to work for its construction after the U.S. Senate voted down legislation to advance the pipeline through Congress. Noem helped the House pass the legislation on November 14, 2014.
  Noem opposed a bill introduced by South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson that would designate over 48,000 acres (190 km²) of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland as protected wilderness. She supports the current designation of the land as a national grassland. She pointed out that the land is already managed as roadless areas similar to wilderness and argued that changing the land's designation to wilderness would further limit leaseholder access to the land and imperil grazing rights.
  Noem supports off-shore oil drilling. She co-sponsored three bills that she argued would reduce American dependence on foreign oil by ending the 2010 United States deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico and reopening sales on oil leases in the Gulf and off the coast of Virginia.
  In 2011, Noem sponsored a measure to block Environmental Protection Agency funding for tighter air pollution standards for coarse particulates.
caption: U.S. Representative Noem (center) alongside fellow U.S. Representatives Donna Edwards and Sheila Jackson Lee at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in May 2013
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