This misguided congressional pursuit of environmental justice will no doubt create poverty causing shame, powerlessness, hopelessness, and humiliation to hard working Americans.

By eliminating jobs in fossil fuels Congress will be sentencing Americans all across the country to poverty.

Under this current administration, the oil and gas industry is under attack from pipelines to hydraulic fracturing.

But have you ever seen how they source that material?

Shame on us. We are devastating these countrysides of other nations to satisfy our thirst for batteries.

I just think this is just a hypocritical issue, in many respects on it.

My fear, Mr. Chairman, is that the same will happen to these thriving communities that have relied on good-paying oil and gas jobs for generations.

the last thing we need to do is take away good-paying jobs and disrupt people's lifestyle more than it already has.

So maybe it is time, Mr. Chairman, that the men and women of Government lose their sanctimonious attitude and walk in the shoes of these families who are about to experience poverty, all in this guise of justice.

How can our natural resources be worthy enough to supply the other countries and the rest of the world but not good enough for us right here at home?

Hurting working families is not a justice that any of us should embrace.