This bipartisan bill would create a standalone program for alternative manure management conservation practices for dairy producers, and support additional practices to help reduce methane efforts.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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 untapped.

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.

the benefits of the dams could be replaced.

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.

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 millions, flood control to protect local communities, locks for the transportation of products that we export around the world, and, yes, fish passage both upstream and downstream to protect fisheries, and then even have a conversation or consider destroying all of that.

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

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

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

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.

It produces zero emissions, does it not?

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, farmers, recreationalists, practically everyone living in the region.

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