I personally strongly support the INFRA program and agree with you that a competitive grant program is better positioned to fund large-scale infrastructure projects that improve freight movement.

I would also highlight a couple of things. One, there is a robust knowledge base out there on how to value ecosystem services.

I have been really fascinated by following the discussion on the use of natural infrastructure by the Corps.

We would strongly recommend that you actually tell the Corps in law what they have to account for, and things that they can't account for.

I appreciate your testimony highlighting the increasing cybersecurity risk to our maritime transportation system.

we worked with this Committee and these members because OMSA understood that if changes to the Jones Act are necessary, Congress should enact them.

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this is all about you, the people. I can't imagine what you are going through, but I am so glad you are here to keep us focused that it is all about the people who have been impacted.

Well, the FAA has no specific standard.

Plastic production is an environmental justice issue too.

Last year I witnessed the impacts of plastic pollution on wildlife in Antarctica, one of the few places on earth that has been relatively untouched by human activity.

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

Plastics are also making climate change worse.

An estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic enter the oceans each year at a rate of about one garbage truck per minute.

So, in terms of a contribution to the global plastic quantity of waste, the 6.4 million that I mentioned--or billion, excuse me--we are a major contributor.

The Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife will come to order.

It is imperative that the companies that manufacture and sell these products take ownership of their environmental impacts.

The bottom line is this: We need to do more, we need to look at a broader range of solutions.

Certainly, single-use plastics have made life easier. But these materials come at a much higher cost than many would like to admit.

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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.

We are talking about a study that was halfway completed and got canceled abruptly.

A lot of the pages that we got looked like this--look at Slide 2. That doesn't make any sense.

My staff went through all of those, and roughly 2,700 pages were completely unrelated to what we asked.