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Ben Ray Luján

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Ben Ray Luján is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from New Mexico since January 3, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2021. Luján has focused on various issues during his tenure, including economic development, healthcare, and tribal food security, advocating for policies that support New Mexico's diverse communities.

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May 22, 2019

I think that we must take action on resiliency and that the United States must take immediate action to reduce emissions.

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May 20, 2019

We should be reminded that we made a commitment, when we went to the American people... that we would pass legislation to lower the cost of prescription drug prices for the American people, and we had better deliver on it.

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May 14, 2019

it doesn't make any sense when it is less expensive to fix the problem to clean up their own mess.

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May 14, 2019

The Department of Defense refuses to clean up this groundwater, even though they fully acknowledge that their actions created this pollution.

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Apr 29, 2019

The European Union nations are not hitting their targets; they are not on a trajectory to hit their targets.

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Apr 29, 2019

A CES that uniformly provides incentives for carbon reductions... removes any doubt from the public mind about the actual goal of decarbonization.

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Apr 29, 2019

In the United States, emission reductions seen in 2017 were reversed.

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Apr 29, 2019

We have to very carefully think about some of these multilateral agreements like Paris.

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Apr 29, 2019

Climate change is real, humans are having a contribution to it.

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Apr 29, 2019

A clean energy standard (CES) such as the CESA of 2019 is an excellent way to decarbonize the power sector.

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Apr 29, 2019

One of the biggest flaws in the Paris Accord is the fact that you have China that doesn't even have to reduce emissions.

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Apr 14, 2019

All that we are saying is that we want to codify the long-standing BLM practice to not lease within 10 miles and to protect the remaining Chaco ruins and landscape nearest the existing park.

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