Harley Rouda: “A similar consensus now exists among climate scientists, a consensus that maintains that climate change is happening…”

The EPA's actions are a direct attack on the health and welfare of pregnant women, infants, and children.

We know the current MATS rules protect our most vulnerable: our children, our unborn, and our pregnant moms.

By attempting to gut several regulations, including the MATS rule, the Trump administration is placing the most vulnerable among us in harm's way.

What we need to understand here today and what we explored in my hearings via our subcommittee is that it's actually the opposite. Inaction on climate change is more costly than if we took action.