Alan Lowenthal: “The climate crisis is here, and it poses an existential threat to American life as we know it now.”

I want to join my colleagues in urging you to consider implementing the GAO recommendation to consider a negotiated rulemaking.

I, too, wish to send my condolences to the families of those that died in the tragic accident in Santa Barbara.

We must achieve 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035, and the entire U.S. economy needs to reach net-zero emissions by midcentury.

As such, building even one new oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico will deepen the climate crisis, disproportionately imperiling low-income communities and communities of color in the process.