Joe Neguse

The point is Congress makes decisions about the disposal of lands.

The Congress has a role to play.

When you have U.S. children, U.S. children running away when they see Border Patrol vehicles, I mean, these are U.S. citizen children, that means that something is deeply wrong in this region.

You have mothers afraid to go to take their kids to the school or to buy groceries or to the clinic because of these enforcement.

The only problem with Trump is that too many things start happening at the same time at the border infused with racism and white supremacy.

I hope that from the legislative standpoint we don't only see the problems that Trump has created in the last two years but there have many problems in the last 30 years.

I believe we also should move forward and the Congress ought to move on that piece of legislation.

I think we all have an obligation and a responsibility to speak out against hatred and against bigotry and against violence in our communities.

I believe we need to eliminate for-profit detention entirely.

Thank you both again for your leadership. Thank you to each of the witnesses for their testimony.

Emissions from oil and gas wells account for about 12 percent of Colorado's total release of greenhouse gases, according to the state's best estimate, which it has acknowledged is flawed.

I do think this is a conversation that should be sober-minded and focused on the data.

There is a lot of public health impacts that come from oil and gas drilling and exploration.

I just would implore you, and I certainly implore others who are watching, to read the data, to talk to people in the communities that are being impacted here in Boulder County, elsewhere across the state.

The oil and gas industry is the top producer of volatile organic compounds along the Front Range, which is a region that has failed to comply with Federal air quality standards for more than 15 years.

I can assure you that the health risks from the various sources of energy that we have been looking at, solar and wind, of course, pale in comparison to the health risks caused by hydraulic fracturing.

I know my colleague, Representative Casten, is working on a bill similar to what Colorado has done, so we look forward to partnering on that front.

We want to make sure that we can create a future that works for Craig rather than keep our head in the sand and allow the larger economic forces to hurt not just the workers but continue to hurt the climate.

One of the reasons that I advocated for the Select Committee to be located here for its first field hearing was because of the 14 cities and towns across our state who have made this commitment to a bold, 100 percent renewable energy…

According to the National Institutes of Health, VOCs can cause irritation of the eyes, respiratory tract, dizziness, visual disorders, memory problems, damage to the central nervous system, and in some cases cancer.

In the United States, the economic toll--there was a study published last April that found that inaction on climate change by the year 2090 would cost the United States $224 billion more in economic impacts per year.

Most empirical studies that I have seen demonstrate that unmitigated climate change, if anything, amplifies poverty.

I can think of no better place than Boulder, Colorado, and Colorado as a state, to host the first field hearing of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

Courts, my understanding, put a stop to that policy last year, through a preliminary injunction.

I think you have perhaps clarified the record today in saying that those are items that are central to providing safe and sanitary conditions for those who are detained.