Sean Casten

This is all ball. And the question is, what will the remedy of the commons be?

I encourage my colleagues to vote for the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

We have either a great opportunity or a great embarrassment... that comes from the fact that so many of our trading partners use so much less energy per dollar of GDP than we do.

There is one question of how you suppress votes. There is a separate question of how you target them.

Democracy depends on people trusting that their elections represent the will of the people.

Given the hack that happened on our elections I think it is critical for us to let people know that we are actively working to fix this.

My longtime friend Mike McCracken, who is one of the co-authors of the IPCC report that shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, has been pointing out for some time in ways that are very troubling that the historic challenge with our climate…

I encouraged my friends at NREL to consider reaching out to some people who might know how to do that, because I think that having 24/7 renewable energy would be a pretty nice thing to have there.

I was proud to introduce H.R. 4230, the Clean Industrial Technology Act, specifically to stand up an agency at the Department of Energy to do that research.

We have got to get to zero CO2 yesterday. The hard question is, how?

The historic challenge with our climate forecasts is that they are prone to underpredict the severity of what happens

I want to stay on facts because I'm really concerned with the way that you have analyzed facts.

When you appeared before the Senate for your confirmation hearing, Senator Merkley asked you about a study from Boston University, Harvard, and Syracuse that had recently been published.

I do not have the luxury in my career of selectively interpreting facts.

We have about $1.5 trillion worth of debt. My colleagues across the aisle last term blew a $1.5 trillion hole in the economy...

You have done something really innovative here to address that problem, and I just would like you to tell us about it.

Anything you do meaningfully to lower the cost of energy and lower CO2 are synonymous, because you can't lower CO2 without burning less fuel.

But that is a supply question. Demand still matters.

I have a real, real concern that if the price of gas goes up, we are going to use a lot more coal in this country.

I think members of both parties have agreed that we should prioritize the deployment and development of grid-scale energy storage technologies.

I have spent 20 years in the clean energy space.

It is up to us to put aside partisan disagreements and act as quickly as this body can possibly act.

Every day we fail to act, the consequences of our inaction become more costly and more dire.

The climate crisis is an urgent one. Regardless of what many of my colleagues may think, we do not have time to debate settled science, and we cannot avoid this issue.

I disagree. I don't think it's what Congress intended.