Alan Lowenthal: “The Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will come to order.”

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

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

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.

These targets are certainly reasonable, and they are consistent with what the world has agreed to for climate targets.