Look, in my opening statement, Paul, I discussed the increase in poverty and injustice as we--as the Democrats do away with fossil fuels by the year 2035.

Under this current administration, the oil and gas industry is under attack from pipelines to hydraulic fracturing.

When the Government creates policies, its first priority should be the welfare of the people, especially those impacted the hardest.

Where is the justice in that?

I just think this is just a hypocritical issue, in many respects on it.

Shame on us. We are devastating these countrysides of other nations to satisfy our thirst for batteries.

By eliminating jobs in fossil fuels Congress will be sentencing Americans all across the country to poverty.

And the cruel irony of all this is, as America dismantles its fossil fuel economy, the rest of the world is expanding its use of coal, natural gas, and oil and emitting greenhouse gases at an alarmingly increasing rate.

So maybe it is time, Mr. Chairman, that the men and women of Government lose their sanctimonious attitude and walk in the shoes of these families who are about to experience poverty, all in this guise of justice.

How can our natural resources be worthy enough to supply the other countries and the rest of the world but not good enough for us right here at home?

This misguided congressional pursuit of environmental justice will no doubt create poverty causing shame, powerlessness, hopelessness, and humiliation to hard working Americans.

But have you ever seen how they source that material?

Hurting working families is not a justice that any of us should embrace.

Hurting working families is not a 'justice' that any of us should embrace.

In this new political environment, fossil fuel workers feel powerless as liberal Democrats and the administration team up to take away their life-long jobs.

Thank you, Chairman Tonko.

the Federal clean energy standard that is being proposed is overly ambitious, and it will undoubtedly raise electricity rates for low-income, minority, rural, and senior citizen communities.

These are ravaging effects we are having on communities all across this world in our pursuit of having battery storage.