I appreciate the hard work you're doing to quickly and efficiently roll out these historic investments from the IIJA and the IRA.
He said, yes, we're starting to get them, he said, but the problem is, nobody can afford them.
That should be a factor in determining whether someone gets the lease is what I am hearing you say. Correct?
It shows that even Big Oil knows that it is not very profitable to drill there.
I want to commend you for that.
The intent is to put some rules in place to make certain that, as we look at those areas, we can take the necessary steps to protect it.
Is it normal to grant a lease to a bidder that would seem to lack capacity to even develop that lease?
The Trump administration was trying to jam that through on a deeply flawed environmental review process.
I have seen firsthand what a difference that disaster relief can make for devastated communities.
We really need to tackle this equity problem now to get ahead of it.
I want to spend my time asking you about something that is really at the core of FEMA's work...