Alan Lowenthal: “the best way to address the toxic chemicals and the pollutants is to ensure that they don't get into our environment and…”

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.

The Biden administration has set goals for the United States to reduce greenhouse emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030 and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050.

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.