Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to our communities and our environment.

Climate change has forced us to live in a new normal, in which fires, floods, droughts, and hurricanes wreck our communities and our national heritage.

Thank you, Chairman. Welcome to all of you and thank you so much for taking time to be with us today.

Methane is more than 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat, and is responsible for about a quarter of the warming we are experiencing today.

Right now, the EPA and Interior Department are run by former lobbyists for coal and oil companies.

The question is: will legislation aid our communities' future survival or hinder it. I hope for all our sakes it will be the former.

Simply put, we must have legislation that clearly prioritizes investments in scalable projects like those mentioned today that reduce emissions at the source and address the historical harm and discrimination communities like mine have faced for centuries.

I look forward to working with you and my colleagues to protect our public lands and to meet our obligations to our indigenous communities.

We passed a resolution--I introduce it every year--to make May 5th a national day of awareness of missing and murdered Native women and girls.