Angus King

I hope we are going to have a clear-cut position from the Department that, yes, we will obey the law when it comes to the Freedom of Information Act.

This is going to be, I think, a record year for the parks.

I think it is incredibly important to share with the Committee and the Congress how you are approaching the distribution of LWCF funds.

The Administration refused to answer questions or meet with me to discuss 30 by 30

I would urge you to, for example, hire hackers or red teams to test your systems.

The leasing ban is already having an effect on the revenue generated from federal lands that would go to our parks

Sometimes I hate to be right. Three years ago, I sat right here and cross-examined a representative from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) about the failure to adequately regulate pipelines because of the cyber threat.

The overall purpose here is to keep Wyoming and Nevada from becoming coastal states.

The actions of President Biden to stop leasing and his desire to end oil and gas development permanently can and will have a negative effect on the good work that Congress did last year

The real future of offshore wind is in floating platforms.

I cannot emphasize more how serious this threat is.

The longer Interior and the President keep the ban going, the more harmful that effect will be

It is having a chilling effect. In fact, today we are seeing sales and pipeline leases stopped

I think that is crucial because we do not yet know the cause of Colonial, but it is likely somebody clicked on a phishing email.

I hope you will continue that work and Mr. Minarovic, I hope you will take this seriously. We keep getting wake-up calls.

The lack of details on this initiative were deeply concerning

I can guarantee that your systems are vulnerable to cyberattack today.

The implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act, which involves both the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Restore our Parks Act, maintenance in the parks, is critically important.

I am going to go out on a limb and predict that this summer is going to be the biggest summer ever for the national parks, and we better be ready.

Shouldn't we be talking more about how to reskill and reemploy those jobs rather than trying to change the direction of where the economy is headed?

So you would urge us to vote yes on this resolution to restore the direct regulation?

The major transition was from coal to natural gas. Your state benefited from that and this guy's state didn't benefit.

We support the direct regulation of methane just for the reasons you said, that it is very potent and we need to have regulation in place to ensure that we have adequate controls throughout the industry.

What I am most interested in is timing. We are in a race and we are in a race that we are losing right now.

Do you think that, when we are talking about capture, that by the time that capture technology is cost-effective, we will be out of the fossil fuel, at least in the electric generating business?