Alan Lowenthal: “The Subcommittee is meeting today to hear testimony on the impacts of oil and gas development on air quality and sacred…”

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

Our public lands and oceans can and must be a solution to climate change.

We must achieve 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035, and the entire U.S. economy needs to reach net-zero emissions by midcentury.

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.