Ted Stevens: “Maybe some of us don't want to know that's the problem.”

I share those goals and in looking at the challenges facing the Arctic--which has been called 'ground zero for climate change'--I introduced a series of hills last year.

I'm hopeful that this hearing will be a useful springboard to advance renewable energy development.

We indicated that this was the perfect place to do it.

[I]n 1995, 60 factory trawlers discarded nearly as much fish in the Bering Sea as was kept in the New England lobster fishery, the Atlantic mackerel fishery, the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery, the Pacific sablefish fishery, and the North…