Michael Regan

Anything that we finalize will not degradate the beneficial use of control burns, prescribed burns, and would be able to deal with wildfires.

Because Congress cut the budget. Because you guys cut the budget.

We want to be sure that whether it is our TCTAC program or our Closing the Wastewater Gap for this $150 million in technical assistance, that we are blanketing the country and not leaving any communities behind.

I believe the WOTUS that we have constructed will provide certainty and durability, right, and I think it will give a better opportunity for our farmers to have more security.

I consider us walking and chewing gum at the same time.

I might be biased, but I would say I am right, and I think Secretary Vilsack agrees with me.

We want to support our specialty crop producers, and we are looking at all kinds of ways to provide the flexibilities and the labeling that we need to keep our specialty crop farmers, our small farmers in a most competitive posture.

I have seen solar panels taking up agricultural land for over a decade.

This Administration is the first Administration to ever set a drinking water standard for PFAS.

Mr. Regan, these are the realities that specialty crop growers in my district and in Florida, Texas, and California, and everywhere else have to contend with.

I have met with the biodiesel, biofuels groups, and they have made us aware of some information.

This is not what we should be having in this country.

It is absolutely imperative that we have additional research into this chemical compound, and into the technologies, that will deter this from entering our bodies.

In some cases because of income, and because of race, because of ZIP code, we are seeing an undue and unfair burden.

There is absolutely no acceptable or safe level of lead exposure, for our children, or for anyone.

I think we have to follow the science, but I also think we have to follow the law, and we have to approve plans that we know are not vulnerable to litigation.

we want to do is keep the focus on the bad actors, which are those who pollute, not our agriculture community

It is absolutely imperative that we have additional research into this chemical compound, and into the technologies, that will deter this from entering our bodies.

Our job is fundamentally about keeping people safe, to safeguard the very things that we all as Americans hold dear.

We have made a lot of strides in environmental justice, I am proud of our environmental justice record.

There is absolutely no acceptable or safe level of lead exposure, for our children, or for anyone.

We have made a lot of strides in environmental justice, I am proud of our environmental justice record.

It would set it back significantly... there are a lot of communities in this country in 2023 that just don't have access to clean drinking water.

These cuts could set our success back years, threatening the sustainability of water systems that thousands of people rely on.

In some cases because of income, and because of race, because of ZIP code, we are seeing an undue and unfair burden.