Alan Lowenthal: “The climate is changing faster in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet, and the impacts are dramatic.”

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

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

It is a good piece of legislation. I am proud to be co-sponsoring it.

To stave off the worst impacts of climate change, we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by at least half by 2030.