the more severe, the more costly, and perhaps irreversible, the effects of climate change are becoming.
Without action on climate change, we will need to spend billions of dollars in this century to protect our State.
We must act now while the ability to mitigate the most harmful impact is still within our grasp.
All the while, it is becoming clear that the price of inaction is much greater than the price of action.
Thank you, Madam Chairman. Thanks for holding the hearing.
The choice between curbing climate change and growing our economy is, as I have suggested here many times, a false one.
we can no longer afford inaction.
We have a moral obligation to make sure we have a planet with a decent quality of life.
What Ronald Reagan proposed all those years ago meets the commonsense test for me.
If we are going to have regulations--and we need them--make sure we are using some common sense.
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