"I am so concerned I am planning to send a letter to BOEM requesting that they finally end the practice of categorically excluding offshore rigs from environmental reviews."
"This final rule is a great step in the right direction."
"I will say this Committee does love to pick on California, but that is OK. We have thick skin."
"Big Oil has gotten very good at passing the costs of their business onto the public."
"There is harm, not just from an environmental justice standpoint, but from a livelihood and a cultural standpoint."
"These recent geothermal energy breakthroughs, I think, offer really exciting opportunities to develop clean and always available energy in communities that have previously hosted fossil fuel developme..."
"I think repurposing fossil fuel infrastructure to make clean energy instead seems like a win-win for everyone involved."
"Let's be clear. Telework and remote work works. Workers want it because it makes them more productive and reduces stress by avoiding commutes."
"COVID opened our eyes to the advantages of telework. We can't and shouldn't ignore those lessons."
"We know now that 2023 was the hottest year on record by a wide margin, and the rate of warming over the past century has no precedent."
"The communities in my district would beg to differ. They still suffer from the impacts of having the largest urban oil field in the country in their backyard."
"We may have the best and safest environmental laws in the world, but they don't mean anything if they are not enforced."