Alan Lowenthal: “We need to be conducting more oversight about the Department's operations and hold more Administration witnesses…”

Just over 30 years ago, I made the decision to run for the Long Beach City Council because I felt that my councilmember really didn't listen to the constituents and to my neighbors and myself. This journey of public service has taken me…

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

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