"Oil and gas development in Alaska is not an easy issue to grapple with."
"There has to be a balance, a balance between development and conservation."
"The climate is changing faster in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet, and the impacts are dramatic."
"I strongly oppose these policies, and implore the Administration not to issue any new oil and gas lease sales on the Outer Continental Shelf."
"But now the Trump administration wants to take us backwards."
"Interior is going to become the worst neighbor imaginable."
"Lifting regulations on the oil and gas industry, while giving them more of our oceans to play with is a dangerous combination."
"Just 2 weeks ago, we learned that the oil and gas companies currently hold 7,950 approved drilling permits that they have not used."
"The 2017-2022 Federal offshore oil and gas development on the Outer Continental Shelf, that plan, as I understand, was just completed in January of this year."
"Four times as many jobs would be at risk from the industrial facilities that would be built along the coast."
"The Department of the Interior will be a better neighbor in the new Trump administration."