Kathy Castor

The COVID pandemic certainly has highlighted the unfortunate health disparities across America.

If we don't step up, China will dictate the terms and the rules for the future.

We should leverage public-private partnerships to develop a national awareness campaign.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

America must also lead to stop counterfeit goods and protect our intellectual property.

I think my neighbors back home would want me to relay to you how dangerous that is, how angry they are about it.

I thank Chairman Pallone for yielding the time. Affordable healthcare is fundamental to the well-being of American families, but the Trump administration doesn't believe that. Now, they are proposing again to shrink, block, or eliminate…

Thank you for this opportunity to speak.

Decades of discrimination also have exposed working class communities and communities of color to extreme heat, putting them on the front lines of the climate crisis.

One of our most important responsibilities as elected representatives is to keep our constituents safe.

In your testimony before the committee you mentioned some of the risks that farmworkers face from the impacts of climate change.

To get to net zero carbon pollution by at least 2050, we need bold, Federal policy action on climate solutions.

Climate change is the most significant health challenge of our lifetimes, but I see it as an enormous opportunity.

Pollution, including carbon pollution that fuels climate change, is not--and should not be--a partisan issue.

Congress shouldn't wait until it's too late for us to act on climate.

Our moral obligation that we have to our children and future generations to make sure that they grow up in a livable world.

While America has been fueled over the past two centuries by burning coal, oil and gas, over time those fuel sources have harmed public health.

It is time to expand information and action on climate and health, including mental health.

The impact of extreme heat on a person's health is relatively straight forward to understand.

Climate change contributes to asthma exacerbation by multiple mechanisms.

Our climate crisis continues to hurt our economy, threaten our national security, and harm public health.

This is an issue of protecting people, not just the planet for the planet's sake.

Climate change is making people sick, what government should do about it, and the policies we need.

I would hope that farm workers and folks who work outside all across this country could enjoy the same protections.

As we discuss climate solutions today, it is clear we must emphasize environmental justice for these vulnerable Americans.