John Scott Duarte

Endangered Species Act in California, with the spotted owl, has let our forests become overgrown fire hazards.

If we look at the successful--in privately-owned forests, like Sierra Pacific Industries, they tend to have a lot less forest fires.

So, please, any of you, explain to me how the mine, located where that red dot is, is going to economically disrupt the naturalism through hundreds of thousands of million acres of that.

I need your information to help make these decisions.

Anyone that wants to canoe there probably won't be able to see the mine from there, right?

Thank you for being here. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I feel we as American farmers can compete with anybody in the world and deliver a superior product, so having those trade agreements in place and free trade, we are all for it.

So any way we can maintain access to those markets, I feel we as American farmers can compete with anybody in the world and deliver a superior product.

I am Googling it as you speak, and I find that America is currently using about 100 quadrillion BTUs--they call it a quad--a year, and that 30 gigawatts is 1 percent of that.

30 gigawatts of wind energy targeted by the Biden administration between now and 2030 to provide renewable energy.

Non-tariff barriers, it seems like a lot of the crop protection tools that we want to use here in America that are very sustainable, very safe, and very effective tools, very proven, are being banned because of material residues.

When those tariffs came in and we started to get into this bout with India, we went from India being our largest trading partner to virtually nonexistent.

So a little loss of the Indian market puts an extra supply back in our market, and a commodity, a little bit of extra supply can mean catastrophically lower prices.

I wish we were here talking about clean water. We can all agree, as we did back in 1974 when we passed the Clean Water Act and we gave the government all it needed to deliver clean water to America, the rivers no longer burn. Trains do…

California water infrastructure hasn't been added to significantly in 40 years.

Thank you, Administrator Regan, for being here today.

I was prosecuted under the Clean Water Act not by the EPA, who actually had the subject matter jurisdiction to prosecute me under the Clean Water Act...

We have historic levels of rain, and the other years we have hardships of drought.

When you go to the level of criminalizing farming practices, your requirement to define what is a violation of the Clean Water Act and what is a criminal offense to the Clean Water Act is very, very important.

I hope this is on your radar, on your personal radar.

I sincerely appreciate your playing ball.

We are literally creating a dustbowl with some of these practices.

I am from an area in California where we have a number of endangered species, single species management schemes impacting our rural residents and farmers and landscapes.

Spotted owl protection in the Sierra Nevada forests have limited sustainable logging there for decades now.

How do we convince ourselves in rural America that humans aren't species number 17,001 when it comes to prioritization and welfare?