Thank you so much, Chairman Stauber. And I, too, am looking forward to working with you this Congress.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. If you are curious, you can just ask me.

I want to thank you for allowing the second round of questioning for this important Committee work.

the burden of toxic waste and pollution, and the burden of paying for that cleanup themselves, if it ever even does get cleaned up.

One of the pieces of legislation... is the TAP American Energy Act, and it gives away more and more lands to fossil fuel development.

This Committee has a profound responsibility and role in mitigating the impacts of the climate crisis.

what we really, I think, should be focusing on is the more than the $1 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act to increase Federal agency capacity for those environmental reviews, which I think would actually speed up time.

The extreme GOP platform has shifted to one that vilifies the Federal Government and its laws so they can put private industry, no matter how dirty, reckless, or greedy, up on a pedestal above the needs of the general public.

Republicans and their industry allies don't like NEPA, and they will push every bill they can to try to hobble its effectiveness.

It is especially, especially stark to cut environmental reviews for the fossil fuel industry, the biggest culprit responsible for the climate crisis that we are in.

We cannot allow oil and gas companies to sit on unused leases for longer, preventing those leases from being used.

And Mr. Stauber, while you arrange that, would it be all right--I have some documents that I would like to submit to the record.