Alan Lowenthal: “I strongly oppose these policies, and implore the Administration not to issue any new oil and gas lease sales on the…”

I represent the Port of Long Beach. I am the cochair with Randy Weber from Texas of the Congressional PORTS Caucus.

Burning the oil and gas that the Department of the Interior projected to be developed as a result of Lease Sale 257 would be the equivalent of building 130 new coal-powered plants.

I believe the only response to this is to make sure that the fleet is big enough and flexible enough to meet congressional requirements.

Gulf Coast communities are also on the front lines of climate change, and sea-level rise, erosion, flooding, and more powerful storms will continue to wreak havoc until we reduce our emissions.