Elizabeth Esty

Thank you very much, and I yield back.

Do our young people have the skills necessary to compete in modern manufacturing?

So those investments the taxpayers are making on the local level are really wise investments that are going to be good for a number of years.

I understand the importance of reliable communications technology, particularly in our new, developing advanced transportation systems.

Thank you, Chairwoman Comstock, and thank you for holding today's important hearing to examine the fiscal year 2017 budget request for the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

It can't be about going to see your doctor and fixing the problem after the fact. How do we keep ourselves healthier for longer?

It is important that we continue to raise those standards in accordance with what is going to best protect the American public.

It just makes no sense that you lack this authority.

I hope that PHMSA and this committee can work together to improve pipeline safety in the United States.

Safety is paramount when it comes to producing and transporting energy across the United States.

I really appreciate your hard work, and another 40 years for this project.

I would hope that you are developing materials, links to websites that you can disseminate us to...

We will be better not just as a country but as a species if we continue the sort of cutting-edge research.

If we're going to break those boundaries, reach beyond what we know, it does take that kind of serious long-term committed investment, even in the face of if not failure, not the sort of data you would have wanted.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and to the Ranking Member, and most of all, thank you to the four of you and these huge, exciting team of international researchers.

These same engineers who developed fracking technology can also be developing, and I would argue, better off developing, clean, renewable energy technologies that can be licensed to the world.

One of the reasons we moved early and vigorously in Connecticut, because the same rules that address climate change are helping bring down asthma rates in our cities from dirty air that's blown over from other parts of the country.

I come from the great State of Connecticut, where we have found, and shown, that good environmental protection leads to economic growth, not the contrary.

I endorse consideration of H.R. 501 Veterans and Servicemembers Employment Rights and Housing Act of 2015.

We don't believe that the EPA has created a mandatory cap-and-trade program through the Clean Power Plan.

Empowering residents and citizens and businesses to use energy more efficiently is one of the key elements.

The costs of inaction, in fact, on climate change far outweigh the costs of action.

If we don't do something now, we are in big trouble.

We are a global leader, and we are a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.

We would reduce our carbon emissions by about 20 percent.