Alan Lowenthal: “The Biden administration has set aggressive but necessary emission reduction targets...”

As such, building even one new oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico will deepen the climate crisis, disproportionately imperiling low-income communities and communities of color in the process.

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

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

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.