Eddie Bernice Johnson

This target, which is known as the United States' Intended Nationally Determined Contribution sets a goal of reducing carbon pollution across the nation by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2025.

Climate change is only scary if we chose to sit, wait, and do nothing about it.

The President's Climate Change Action Plan and the goal submitted to the United Nations represent commonsense steps that will lead to a healthier environment.

We, as a nation, must act today to address climate change if we are to preserve our quality of life for our children and grandchildren, and some old people like me.

The time to address climate change is now.

I think the target put forward by the President is justified.

But issuing a subpoena for press impact undermines the seriousness of the Chairman's oversight work.

This subpoena was thus entirely unnecessary from an oversight perspective.

I wish this Committee would not be rushing to judgment in an attempt to score political points.

Today's hearing, sadly, is about political theater and inflammatory claims that are not tied to any real facts.

When the Committee adopted the new subpoena rules at the beginning of this Congress, he assured the Minority that when he issued a subpoena, it would not come as a surprise.

This letter clarifies the results of the study, and the misinterpretation by some that ozone--is not important for asthma.

We can and must do better for current and future generations.

A strong economy and a healthy environment are not mutually exclusive.

The health of Americans must come first.

In fact, there is much more evidence showing that on balance, jobs are created and the economy expands following the passage of major reforms.

Despite that, some will argue that EPA's proposed standard will kill jobs, decimate the industrial base, and result in irreparable economic disruption.

It's clear that air quality-related illnesses have a very real and destructive effect on the economy--on the order of hundreds of billions of dollars annually.

The Clean Air Science Advisory Committee recommends lowering the ozone standards, and I think we should listen to our scientists.

In fact, the American Lung Association gives the air quality in Dallas a grade of F.

As someone who worked in the public health field before I entered politics, I am a nurse.

It will keep them from missing 330,000 to 1 million days in school each year.

The scientific evidence supports a lower standard for ozone than we currently have.

The Panel is unable to offer any informed opinion regarding the adequacy of the certification process or the sufficiency of safety in the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) due to constraints on access to needed information.

I believe that funding science and innovation should be an easy choice, for this is about our future.