Frank Pallone

We must also be mindful to not expand the Federal Communications Commission's jurisdiction to include the electric distribution or transmission system--where they have no relevant expertise.

When a storm or wildfire strikes, it is essential that people can still make calls to 9-1-1 or to loved ones.

It is essential that people can still make calls to 9-1-1 or to loved ones.

We have a responsibility to ensure our networks are prepared for this stark reality.

The statistics are particularly alarming for LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers.

This bill will make it easier for people experiencing a mental health crisis to access help.

Every day the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saves lives.

This legislation picks up where the SANDy Act left off and will ensure that communication networks are prepared for the worst when disaster strikes.

The fact is that climate change is causing more frequent and more severe disasters; and a functioning communications network can be the difference between life and death in these situations.

Every day, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline saves lives.

It just doesn't make sense to cut back on the money that we could spend to clean up these sites.

But why are you proposing a cut of $112 million?

I mean you wouldn't deny that we have a lot of these where we need more funding to proceed, right?

I guess my concern is, I think there is a real risk that you are declaring some of these sites ready for reuse by lowering the cleanup standards.

I think part of the discrepancy here is that for these ones beyond the six, a lot of that work was done or completed under previous administrations.

I have also authored legislation with my colleague, Mr. Tonko, here, to use the Superfund program to incentivize climate adaptation.

Now I have reintroduced the Superfund Polluter Pays Act to reinstate the Superfund tax and ensure resources are available for lifesaving cleanups.

Well, you wouldn't disagree that you have the largest backlog of unfunded cleanup projects, right?

I appreciate that, but I do think you should be requiring the financial assurances, because these are the four most polluting industries that are responsible for the greatest risk and the greatest cost of the Superfund program.

EPA's political leadership needs to step up and do their jobs.

The EPA currently, on the track that it's on, is endangering public health and the health of the environment.

Instead of weakening coal ash regulations, we would strengthen them.

With the CLEAN Future Act, my colleagues and I have outlined aggressive action to address climate change and other pollution.

We simply cannot follow the dangerous course this administration is trying to take us down.

This Trump administration is clearly shouting that it doesn't care about safe drinking water.