Alan Lowenthal: “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…”

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

We are also concerned that the administration has not been forthcoming with the public about its reasons for moving forward with Lease Sale 257.

I look forward to the testimony from our witnesses.

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