Alan Lowenthal: “This issue of taking the citizenship away from some of the people that were born on the island I think is a bad sign.”

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

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 am glad also that we have come together to discuss this critically important issue.

I would like to emphasize how important a quick resolution of this process and a timely report will be to my constituents.