Coal is a critical component of the electric grid reliability.
Today the Committee is going to examine several of the important roles that States play in successful conservation, reco...
It was a magnificent bipartisan effort, really, that came out of this Committee, 21 to nothing.
States contribute and carry out more than $5.6 billion in conservation efforts.
States--not Federal agencies--have primacy over wildlife management.
Without objection, it is entered into the record.
Some people see ocean plastic as a looming catastrophe worth mentioning in the same breath as climate change.
I want to thank them for their leadership on this issue.
I defer to my colleague from Rhode Island.
Plastic takes at least 450 years to degrade completely; sometimes much longer than that.
Experts believe that about 90 percent of all plastic pollution flows into the oceans from just ten rivers.