It is essential that new Federal policies provide equality and opportunity for rural communities that are too often left behind.

My district is facing the brunt of the transition away from coal.

I will soon be introducing comprehensive legislation, the New Promise Act, to put impacted coal communities in the driver's seat.

If America alone decarbonizes, the impact on the global environment would be virtually immeasurable.

Serious Federal policy proposals must also reflect the global nature of the challenge.

Based on these experiences, neither a President nor a Congress should ever put a regulation in place before a bipartisan transition plan has been adopted.

Efforts to transform our energy sector should be mindful of the failures of past regulatory overreach and an inability to pivot to renewables.

These hard-working men and women ... deserve more respect than this.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

What happens to Gillette, Wyoming; Hazard, Kentucky; Cadiz or Welch? What happens to those in the meantime?

Don't forget that, when Joe Biden was a candidate, he said that Executive orders could become an abuse of Presidential Power.

I request unanimous consent to enter the following into the record.

I look forward to a thoughtful discussion and I yield back.

So hopefully our panelists today won't insult us by saying that rejoining the Paris Agreement will solve America's environmental dilemma.

But if members of this committee naively think that other nations are waiting for America to lead, they're wrong.

There are no solar panel or wind turbine manufacturing plants in Gillette, Wyoming; Hazard, Kentucky; Cadiz, Ohio; or Welch, West Virginia.

Workers from coal communities will be, quote, 'put to work making solar panels.'

is it fair to say that China would be the one, the top geopolitical and financial beneficiary of such a policy?

the beneficiaries will be China, in terms of exporting the so-called green products, minerals, and Russia and the Middle East in terms of exporting the oil and gas.

So, Mr. Chairman, remember, your party controls the House, the Senate, and the White House. You can do almost anything want, but don't forget that 'just because you can, doesn't mean you should.'

President Biden wants workers to have alternatives.

the world will use more oil and gas in the future and not less, for the usefully foreseeable future.

Mr. Chairman, these new Executive orders will increase the divide between big cities and rural areas, not foster unity.

Displaced workers, coal miners, can work, quote, 'reclaiming abandoned land mines.'

So for people to say there are no plans, that just means the States didn't create one that works.