They expect that when their children are swimming in a lake, that it is safe for them to be in that lake swimming.
I would hope that we would allow the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out its responsibility.
If approved by this committee and confirmed by the Senate, it is my intent to work with all toward achieving that object...
I think this Administration is trying to move in that direction to give some predictability to the laws.
I happen to be from the great State of Maryland, which I think did something both spectacular and really politically dif...
I think, Mr. Chairman--Chairman Shuster, Mr. Chairman, it is really incumbent on us to figure this out.
People say, oh, 1 degree, what does that mean? But when you see the types of storms that we have seen...
Rising sea level is creating a security problem for us as we are losing more and more of our shoreline.
We are involved, I serve on the Senate Foreign Committee with Senator Boxer and others on this Committee.
We need national policies to deal with these issues.
If you do not respect our environment, you cannot grow the economy.
These extreme weather events and increased temperatures are not theoretical. They are happening to us right now.
It is urgent that we act and we act now.
The loss of sea grasses by warmer water is affecting the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay.
It is time that we get serious with three key responses to the climate threat.
This climate crisis is already happening, and the extreme weather that we have been experiencing as a nation makes it cl...
I want it to be the very best that it can be.
We have got to get to the bottom of this.
