"The Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife will come to order."
"Plastics are also making climate change worse."
"Plastic production is an environmental justice issue too."
"The bottom line is this: We need to do more, we need to look at a broader range of solutions."
"It is imperative that the companies that manufacture and sell these products take ownership of their environmental impacts."
"the global life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from conventional plastics which were produced in 2015 were 1.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent"
"Certainly, single-use plastics have made life easier. But these materials come at a much higher cost than many would like to admit."
"We think that runs counter to the promise of public transit, which creates a lot of good jobs in our communities, that supports other workers to get to their place of employment."
"Well, let's just talk about that. Those 349 documents you say you have responded with--and we received that disk on Friday of these--what you are saying are the 349 different documents--we had 348, yo..."
"We would like to see the un-redacted pages, or an explanation of why they are being redacted."
"You now have--you see these. Can you respond by next week with the un-redacted documents, or provide a specific explanation why it was redacted?"