I was glad to see the House pass H.R. 9 to keep America in the Paris Climate Agreement, and I hope the Senate follows suit.

I do think this is a conversation that should be sober-minded and focused on the data.

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.

I can assure you that the health risks from the various sources of energy that we have been looking at, solar and wind, of course, pale in comparison to the health risks caused by hydraulic fracturing.

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.

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

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

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.

I am honored to welcome you to Colorado for a very important field hearing to discuss climate change, an existential threat to our security, our health, our economy, our public lands and ecosystems, and our very way of life.

We want to make sure that we can create a future that works for Craig rather than keep our head in the sand and allow the larger economic forces to hurt not just the workers but continue to hurt the climate.

One of the reasons that I advocated for the Select Committee to be located here for its first field hearing was because of the 14 cities and towns across our state who have made this commitment to a bold, 100 percent renewable energy…

I reintroduced the 'FRAC' Act, which eliminates the Halliburton loophole that was enacted in the 1990s.

I am working on legislation to pass the Methane Waste Prevention Act that reinstates this important rule at the national level.

I know my colleague, Representative Casten, is working on a bill similar to what Colorado has done, so we look forward to partnering on that front.

Among the many reasons for protecting our public lands, of course, is that they are enormous economic drivers of jobs in Colorado.

There is no economic or moral reason for the United States... to stick our heads in the sand.

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 United States is not a nation that backs down from a challenge.