Fred Upton

We need to know what happened last week with Colonial and certainly appreciate your willingness to provide us answers.

I believe that Congress and the Department have an opportunity to work collaboratively to improve cyber response and harden our Nation's critical energy infrastructure.

We need real reforms, strong lead agencies, timelines, real certainty to encourage project developers to take the risk.

I introduced the Securing America's Critical Minerals Supply Act to increase the domestic supply of critical minerals and alternatives.

It is also imperative that we get a handle on the supply chain, or we are going to end up in the same position that we were in before America's shale energy revolution.

We are now self-sufficient when it comes to natural gas, which has helped the U.S. reduce its greenhouse gas emissions more than any other country.

The U.S. has also reversed a decades-long trend of rising imports and dependence on the Middle East.

I look forward to continuing a close working relationship with her, our former Governor.

I confess that I have concerns that the CLEAN Future Act puts the cart before the horse by mandating electric vehicles.

The CLEAN Future Act contains billions in subsidies and mandates in an attempt to push EVs on the American public, whether they are ready for them or not.

I think that we share similar views on the need to address climate change and certainly the benefits of clean energy.

We became net energy exporters. Today, as a result of the shale revolution and the rise of natural gas production, we are also leading the world in carbon emission reductions.

We are not just talking about a few people's livelihoods. We are talking about entire communities who could be harmed by a 'transition' to lower paying jobs.

We will also examine what's at stake with the Biden administration's Executive orders attacking American energy production and manufacturing.

So, as you know, a frequent line that certain many of us in Congress and on this committee have used is 'all-of-the-above' strategy.

Jobs in fossil energy, mining, and manufacturing provide meaningful, family sustaining work for millions of Americans.

It will decimate our energy security and leave us hooked on China for cheap solar panels and batteries.

The Democrat's Clean Future Act promises to remove good paying jobs, retrain workers, and relocate them to new cities.

The CLEAN Future Act is a 981 page bill with hundreds of billions of dollars in American taxpayer giveaways to countries like China.

Well, thank you, my friend and chairman, for holding today's virtual hearing.

This is such a win-win, one of the best things, probably, since sliced bread.

In order to reduce CO2 emissions as fast as possible we need to modernize the permitting process.

I am all about next-gen nuclear power, I am all about SMRs and thorium reactors and anything that we can do.

Those of us from Michigan know the immense importance of the Great Lakes, both from the environmental and the economic standpoint.

This 30 minutes is a tribute to our leader who is leaving us, Greg Walden, the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee and the former chairman, and, obviously, a good friend to everyone on both sides of the aisle. Knowing that…