
I rise as the designee of Representative Escobar, and I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 20103. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to…
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I rise as the designee of Representative Escobar, and I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 20103. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to…

This amendment would further restrict access to the courts to hold polluters accountable when they violate the law and unlawfully harm public health and the environment. The underlying bill already bars additional review of a permit…

It is simply a public right that the public has an opportunity to seek redress in the courts. To limit that should not be part of this legislation. I urge opposition to the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting…

My comments about uranium mining and the reports that are requested in this amendment, I am not arguing with the request. My point is that there is a history here of impacted communities. What do we do with waste? That challenge, the…

House Democrats filed several amendments to H.R. 1 that would help mitigate some of the outright damage to our climate, our communities, and our economic future that this bill would cause. Unfortunately, only 7 out of 95 were made in order…

When the government offers up public land for an oil and gas lease sale, the public has a right to challenge the agency's decision. Challenges can be for any number of reasons, from concerns about air or water, harming cultural heritage…

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Chair, I ask that people really stop and think about what we are asking here. This is not unreasonable where power lines interface with forested areas. Precautions like we are talking…

I am happy to support my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who seem to be taking an interest in supporting our homegrown, clean energy economy. Unfortunately, there isn't much else in H.R. 1, the polluters over people act, that…

Why would we even look? If we already know that it contributes almost nothing to the problem, and the problem comes from somewhere else, we either have to fix the problem somewhere else or we have to come up with the rationale to allow…

I support this amendment. I am happy to support my colleague on the other side of the aisle who seems to be taking an interest in supporting our homegrown, clean energy economy. Growing a wind industry with domestic supply chains will help…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arizona is recognized 5 minutes.

This amendment stops any offshore wind lease sales in the waters around Florida until the Government Accountability Office publishes a report on the impacts of wind energy development on military readiness, the marine environment, and…

So how will EPA's actions like the Good Neighbor Rule help ensure that Yuma isn't held accountable for emissions that they have zero control over?

Congress must robustly invest in the research to leverage the environmental benefits of these technologies.

I have flown around this planet from an altitude of above 200 miles 853 times.

Which is why Congress enacted my bill with Chairman Garret Graves, the Advanced Aviation Infrastructure Modernization Act.

Congress must robustly invest in critical research to leverage the environmental benefits of these technologies.

the bipartisan House passage of the Drone Infrastructure Inspection Grant Act last Congress to fund State, local, and Tribal governments' use of UAS.