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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I think your story underscores why Representative Tonko's legislation is so critically important.

I am dumbfounded of how you could not answer that question with a simple no.

Perhaps folks that are here at this side of the dais should stick to policy making and we should let the scientists stick to science.

The zero tolerance policy is still, quote 'an active memo.'

The work of scientists in my district relies on the freedom to share scientific research in its entirety without political interference.

I suspect in many other cases.

These topics merit consideration and attention by the committees of jurisdiction.

We are certainly going to continue to call attention to your case in particular, and to try to do what we can to hold the folks at the Department of the Interior accountable.

Of course you do not want your children to be kept in this type of detention.

I believe that many in the country were shocked by the arguments that were made in front of the Ninth Circuit.

I find it a bit odd, or perhaps absurd, for individuals to describe these hearings as political theater.

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.

I suspect you have seen the letter from the OIG. In that same letter, I requested that the OIG investigate the retaliation that you outlined in your testimony.

soap and toothbrushes are central to providing safe and sanitary conditions