Alan Lowenthal actually said...

If you represent Louisiana, you want to open up your coast line, you want to put it at risk, I say stay off of my California coastline.

Climate change is real, it is happening, and we need to act now to stop it, not to go the other way and to open up our coastline.

Opening up the Atlantic Ocean to offshore drilling, we believe, is looking backwards and is not Maryland's energy choice.

To put it at risk is totally unacceptable.