It is essential that new Federal policies provide equality and opportunity for rural communities that are too often left behind.
I will soon be introducing comprehensive legislation, the New Promise Act, to put impacted coal communities in the driver's seat.
As long as countries like China and India are expanding their dependence on fossil fuels, America will still experience wildfires on the Wes...
I have been functioning for years now on the fact that climate change is a global issue and requires a global solution.
Serious Federal policy proposals must also reflect the global nature of the challenge.
If America alone decarbonizes, the impact on the global environment would be virtually immeasurable.
My district is facing the brunt of the transition away from coal.
the beneficiaries will be China, in terms of exporting the so-called green products, minerals, and Russia and the Middle East in terms of ex...
Workers from coal communities will be, quote, 'put to work making solar panels.'
is it fair to say that China would be the one, the top geopolitical and financial beneficiary of such a policy?
the world will use more oil and gas in the future and not less, for the usefully foreseeable future.
These hard-working men and women ... deserve more respect than this.
I look forward to a thoughtful discussion and I yield back.
So, Mr. Chairman, remember, your party controls the House, the Senate, and the White House. You can do almost anything want, but don't forge...
What happens to Gillette, Wyoming; Hazard, Kentucky; Cadiz or Welch? What happens to those in the meantime?
I request unanimous consent to enter the following into the record.
There are no solar panel or wind turbine manufacturing plants in Gillette, Wyoming; Hazard, Kentucky; Cadiz, Ohio; or Welch, West Virginia.
Displaced workers, coal miners, can work, quote, 'reclaiming abandoned land mines.'
