I think we all have an obligation and a responsibility to speak out against hatred and against bigotry and against violence in our communities.

We need to have a conversation about what's happening now, not just about what happened 50 years ago.

We need to protect Social Security and ensure that it is there for future generations.

We have to be smart about how we're running or we're going to give Trump a second term. We can't do it.

The United States has a moral obligation to beat Donald Trump and end his presidency.

In the United States, the economic toll--there was a study published last April that found that inaction on climate change by the year 2090 would cost the United States $224 billion more in economic impacts per year.

When we say the states are laboratories of democracy, we mean that literally here.

several years back, at a committee hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Director Neil Kornze of the Bureau of Land Management under the Obama administration was testifying before our committee on a regulation that was…

There is a lot of public health impacts that come from oil and gas drilling and exploration.

According to the National Institutes of Health, VOCs can cause irritation of the eyes, respiratory tract, dizziness, visual disorders, memory problems, damage to the central nervous system, and in some cases cancer.

Most empirical studies that I have seen demonstrate that unmitigated climate change, if anything, amplifies poverty.

We don't have to choose between creating good jobs and saving our air, our water, and our way of life. We can and we must do both by growing our renewable energy sector.

Thank you so much, Madam Chair.

We have really struggled with the Trump Administration's rollback of energy efficiency standards, rollback of fuel economy standards for the cars that we drive.

I am going to yield the balance of my time to another inspiration for all of us, the great representative of this community, Congressman Joe Neguse.

Would you agree with the governor and me and others that Colorado has one of the strictest methane rules of any place in the country? Is that right?

Emissions from oil and gas wells account for about 12 percent of Colorado's total release of greenhouse gases, according to the state's best estimate, which it has acknowledged is flawed.

The oil and gas industry is the top producer of volatile organic compounds along the Front Range, which is a region that has failed to comply with Federal air quality standards for more than 15 years.