Alan Lowenthal: “we are not talking about the weakening of the standards that are so important to the health of our community.”

The program is oversubscribed by a factor of 5.4 to 1.

I have no further requests at this time. I am prepared to close, and I reserve the balance of my time.

There were applications for over $1.3 billion in Federal funds, while we only gave out a total of $239 million.

We have subsidized the fossil fuel industry for decades upon decades in this country on our public lands...