In November the President introduced a Memorandum about how agencies should mitigate the impact on the environment of their actions and the actions that they approve, and the document outlines some pretty common sense steps.

This Memo says that if developers are going to damage some of our nation's most precious resources then they should minimize or make up for the damage they do.

So, if they do not have a demonstrated commitment to the interests of investors and the public, you are a no?

there is a vacancy on the most important Court in America, and the message from Senate Republicans is crystal clear: Forget the Constitution. It doesn't matter who President Obama nominates because the Republicans will allow no votes on…

Obviously we need a real solution to fight wildfires, a solution that ensures sufficient funding, that keeps environmental protections in place and that provides certainty for all of the other Forest Service programs.

In recent years the Forest Service budget has been dominated by one thing, the cost of fighting wildfires.

Fire season now lasts about two and a half months longer than it did in 1970.

This is very, very troubling because the pace of climate change is now accelerating.

The conditions that produce more wildfires are well known.

Yet we have seen the Federal regulators out in California just hand this over to the states.

This business about market structure is just powerfully important. That makes this hearing very important.

It is hard to support building any more of them.