• 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Matheson receives a briefing on US Forest Service efforts to battle the Mill Flat fire near New Harmony. Firefighting efforts lasted several weeks during August 2009.

New areas of Big Cottonwood Canyon will receive enhanced protection under the Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act.

Matheson tours the unfinished Energy Research Center building on Utah State University ’s Vernal campus with Director Robert Behunin.

Matheson ends day of meetings with Emery County officials by serving lamb to families at the Emery County Fair.

You Tube Delicious Twitter Facebook Flickr

Matheson calls for temporary extension of all tax cuts. Read the letter here (PDF)

Congressman Matheson makes all 2011 Appropriation Requests Available to the public. Click here for the list.

Chevron Pipeline Oil Spill into Red Butte Creek

Read Congressman Matheson's correspondence regarding oversight of pipeline safety and spill cleanup here.


Press Headlines

Matheson says bill is still needed to set US policy banning foreign radioactive waste

Washington, D.C.— Congressman Jim Matheson said today that a request to a federal agency from a Utah company to bring in radioactive waste from Germany is a reminder that the issue about the U.S becoming the home to foreign waste is unresolved.

Op ed for US News.com on the path forward for the U.S. House (pdf)

Democrats got whupped on November 2nd and anyone who says otherwise is on another planet. In House races, Republicans gained over 60 seats—the second-largest net gain in the chamber by either party since World War II.

Matheson language included in bipartisan nuke energy research bill

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Jim Matheson's effort to support research into minimizing water usage in new nuclear power plants is part of a bipartisan nuclear energy research bill.