Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I am proud to offer this amendment, along with my colleagues, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Huffman, and Ms. Lujan Grisham. It is a very simple amendment. It just strikes a policy rider, section 439 of the bill. This section would block the EPA from doing its job. It would block the EPA's commonsense standards for sources of emissions of methane in the oil and gas industry, an issue that is literally in our backyards in the State of Colorado. It would even prevent the EPA from doing research into existing drill sites for methane standard purposes, and, most astonishing, it would actually prevent the EPA from clarifying the scope of emission sources, which would continue to make sure that we know less and are less protected rather than more protected. The President and the EPA are taking action to protect our country, our planet, from methane emissions. It is past time that we take bold action to combat climate change and reduce the impact of impending catastrophic changes to our climate, to our world, reducing national security and hurting our economy in tourism and agriculture-dependent districts like mine. Taking aggressive action now is, quite simply, a moral imperative, not only within the purview of the EPA, but the actual charge that Congress is giving the Environmental Protection Agency. The sad reality is that right now, the majority of our energy still comes from fossil fuels.…”