To start with, the Chair's bill explicitly says, and I quote, 'Environmental reviews shall not require consideration of downstream indirect effects of oil and gas consumption.'

I associate myself with the Ranking Member's opening comments. And while my colleagues across the aisle are finally beginning to admit climate change does exist, and that it is real, the bills they are putting forward up for discussion…

These bills, on the other hand, are a checklist for industry.

The Subcommittee Chair's bill even lets mining companies conduct their own environmental reviews.

These bills have always been a gift to the polluters, but with the context of climate crisis that we all know is real, we are living in that right now. These bills now become reckless and, to some extent, dangerous.

I appreciate the courtesy, and a special thanks to the Ranking Member for adding her leadership and her perspective to this Subcommittee.

As it stands now, nearly a quarter of the United States' current carbon pollution comes from fossil fuel production on public lands.

Permit MN would loosen our mining regulations for the most toxic industry in America.

The problem is a fossil fuel industry that is more interested in keeping supply artificially low so that prices stay artificially high.

NEPA is, from most of the testimony and the discussion--the drought in the Southwest and other parts of the country, that is the fault of too much regulation and NEPA.

Not one Republican voted for that Inflation Reduction Act or any other legislation.