Fossil fuel development is a looming threat to the Gwich'in people.

Oil and gas development exacerbates all of these threats.

Rolling back these protections puts far too much at risk.

Some say this is necessary for domestic energy production and energy security, but I remind my colleagues that the lease sales were quite a disappointment compared to the original estimates of revenue and industry interest when they were…

Congress made its intention clear in the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act that the abandoned coal mine land reclamation funding should create good paying jobs for displaced coal workers and incentivize union labor.

Yet, as we heard earlier in your testimony today, many modern coal mines are going un-reclaimed.

This is a responsibility of mines and private companies that inflict this damage, and it is yet another example of the ways in which these large companies often privatize benefits and profits, and socialize the costs and harm.

Thank you, Mr.

Coal mining has, and much of the abandonment of these mines, has left a toxic legacy of contaminated soil, polluted waters, and public health disasters across the country.

Mr. Chair, during rollcall Vote No. 616 on amendment 60 to H.R. 4820, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``aye'' when I should have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 62 Offered by Mr. Norman The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand…

True energy and economic security will come when we create an equitable, clean energy economy that puts communities first and ends our reliance on this global extractive industry.