You cannot sacrifice people's lives.

At the end of the day, they are killing us.

In my district, we have been fighting for years to hold corporate fossil fuel polluters, like Marathon Petroleum, the coal carbon industry accountable.

When black piles... started showing up on a Detroit riverfront blowing into people's homes... we had it independently tested and it had carcinogenic, and all these other toxins in there that cause cancer and respiratory issues.

I would advise you, Mr. Secretary, to get personal legal advice because the cover-up by this Administration goes beyond just providing the taxes.

It is about transparency and the fact that no one is above the law.

This is a sentencing for some of our most vulnerable residents to death if we do not act now.

Carbon dioxide is a natural occurring, nontoxic, and beneficial gas, and it poses no direct threat to the public health.

Do you think cutting benefits by 20 to 30 percent is a threat to pensions?

Today's hearing makes it very clear that climate change threatens the health and security of each and every American, but the harm done by climate change will not be distributed equally.

According to reporting in the New Yorker, the Koch brothers have funded many sources of environmental skepticism.

As political leaders, especially ones of faith, I implore you to respond faithfully and with full force to love God and neighbor by enacting just, compassionate and transformative climate policies which rise to the challenge of the climate…