"The Farm Production and Conservation Business Center was meant to streamline the agencies and increase efficiency, but I have heard it has actually slowed down the hiring process."
"For Maine and so many other communities across the Nation, as I have heard listening to my colleagues speak, it is just not an abstraction; it is a tangible threat to our communities, to the people wh..."
"For Maine and so many communities across our nation, climate change is not an abstraction, but rather a tangible threat to local economies and the people who live in them."
"Farmers are already being impacted by changing growing seasons and extreme weather events."
"Thank you to Chairwoman Castor, Ranking Member Graves, and Members of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis for holding this Member's Day event and for the opportunity to speak today."
"But it is time for the federal government to step up and take bold action to address it as well."
"I urge this committee to act with the urgency that this crisis demands before it is too late."
"I have been an organic farmer since the 1970s and I have seen a huge transition of when that was, sort of, a funny back to the land idea to $50 billion industry."
"I am working on myself, on a bill related to agriculture and climate change."
"I have been an organic farmer and run a certified organic farm since some time in the 1970s."
"I know the Forest Service is trying to streamline the NEPA review to make it easier for people to manage forests without significant environmental review."