Niki Tsongas: “I believe climate change is a critical generational issue that Congress can no longer ignore.”

I would like to say, first, that energy infrastructure is critical to our economy; yet we cannot simply give the fossil fuel industry carte blanche to build pipelines without robust public reviews. I yield 1\3/4\ minutes to the gentleman…

I have no other speakers, and I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

I think it is important to keep in mind that the lands that this road seeks to cross are Federally protected public lands. They are managed and protected on behalf of all Americans to specifically protect wildlife habitat. And, as such…

Given the information that we have learned from the gas explosions that devastated the Merrimack Valley in September, it is now clear that this disaster was entirely preventable.