Environment

Climate change continues to be an issue for farmers and growers throughout the country.

On behalf of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) and the Water Environment Federation (WEF), we thank you for holding today's hearing.

If these dams were breached, either literally or functionally, those that would be negatively impacted would be electricity customers, transportation stakeholders, river-dependent ports, communities up and down the Pacific Northwest…

There is no other country in the world that would spend billions of dollars that have been invested in the improvement of these dams which would provide affordable, reliable electricity, irrigation for productive farm ground, feeding…

I actually think what the Biden administration is trying to do with the renewable program is what we need.

It produces zero emissions, does it not?

We know that water scarcity is not only food scarcity, we know it is energy scarcity.

California has now paid twice the rate for electricity as the national average, precisely because of this kind of environmental lunacy.

We must reintroduce the ban on oil exports and expand to increase a ban on fracked gas exports.

The Administration's purported concern for the Columbia Basin salmon and the steelhead trout lacks scientific consensus, and their continued refusal to consider contrary scientific evidence is infuriating and irresponsible.

I think that we have energy problems throughout the world, frankly. And I think that for us and this country, I think we have great opportunity if we don't squander it like removing the lower Snake River dams.

I want to thank Representative Steel for bringing her bill before us this morning, championing an energy resource in geothermal that, despite its immense promise both economically and environmentally, remains largely and shockingly…

The benefits of the dams could be replaced.

The true wealth of our region begins with the health of our rivers, fish, and the ecosystem they support, which is our culture, history and future.

If we allow salmon to go extinct, we are breaking the covenant with the Pacific Northwest sovereigns.

For every one ton of emissions we have reduced in the United States, China has increased by four.

If we truly care about climate change, and we care about this environment and we care about this planet, that we are moving forward based on decisions that actually make sense.

So, if the greatest threat to the planet is climate change, and the greatest success in world history is the United States' transition to natural gas, how can those two things co-exist?