Jared Huffman

This latest narrative that has been suggested... that clean energy and electric transmission improvements require gutting NEPA, this is especially false and reckless.

the Federal land managers and the Federal agencies should be the ones to determine, based upon public input, how to manage that land.

I think we need to acknowledge a little more directly that the climate crisis is at the heart of this conversation and this emergency that we are trying to deal with.

The giant sequoia is not a poster child for NEPA reform or ESA reform.

I would like to find them a way to reliably, cost effectively, and sustainably get the dredging and sediment management that they need.

I think it is critically important that we have good consultation, good communication between folks who are doing projects that involve dredging and beach nourishment.

Banning lead products when we know they pose harm is not a radical idea.

I think it is appropriate that those who develop and profit from the extraction of fossil fuel bear those costs instead of externalizing them onto the public and onto communities like Cancer Alley.

But this interest in whales just suddenly springs up when offshore wind is starting to take off and threaten fossil fuels.

the purpose, I think, of this hearing is supposed to be to examine the President's budget request for your agency

residents of Cancer Alley in Louisiana, for example, have a 50 percent greater chance of developing cancer than other U.S. citizens

some of our colleagues in Congress who have suddenly discovered an interest in protecting whales have had numerous opportunities to support legislation and other efforts to protect whales, and were not interested until a chance to oppose…

For too long, for decades really, we have allowed a very corrupt revolving door to exist at Interior...

Tribal economic development is of course important to me, but doing it the right way and ensuring the rights and sovereignty of other tribes are respected is equally important.

I believe was a terrible decision.

The only thing I will add to the discussion you had with Representative Dingell on that is that it is critically important for offshore wind.

Representative Porter and I have previously written to you expressing our concern about how Reclamation is doing cost accounting for that.

Will you commit to working with me, and more importantly the Tribes I represent, to ensure that off-reservation gaming projects are considered in a transparent manner?

You can certainly look at the struggling fish and wildlife in the Central Valley Project Watershed. You can look at the struggling wildlife refuges, and you did the right thing by reversing that.

I am worried about a different kind of uncertainty, that uncertainty that is being experienced by young people all over America about whether they will have a livable planet.

So, you believe the listing creates an adversarial element?

It gives the agency another 6 years to contemplate things, when really they have had 20, 25 years.

if you pass a CRA delisting the lesser prairie chicken, you are almost effectively preventing any future listing of that species by wildlife officials.

No one before you today is better suited to testify about why life as they know it and prefer it could not go on without lobstermen.

the Republican Majority is continuing its unrelenting attack on policies that protect wildlife and endangered species.