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Energy and Environment

Information regarding my stance on Energy and Environment issues.

December 2, 2019

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other congressional Democrats are in Madrid for U.N. climate talks this week, lending a high-profile voice to U.S. supporters of the Paris climate agreement as the 2020 elections heat up.


December 2, 2019

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared Monday that the United States will join other nations in their fight against climate change at a United Nations-led press conference in Madrid, Spain.


December 1, 2019

A freshman Colorado congressman, troubled by allegations of climate censorship by the Trump administration, is attempting to make it harder for political appointees to scrub scientific information from government reports.


November 30, 2019

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will lead a delegation of congressional Democrats to the United Nations climate change conference in Madrid next week, her office announced Saturday.


November 30, 2019
I'm honored to be at COP25 with Speaker Pelosi and many of my colleagues on the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.

November 19, 2019
Asbestos has been killing Americans for too long, leaving families and communities without their loved ones.

November 19, 2019

The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee advanced key legislation to address the growing global marine debris crisis late last week.


November 14, 2019

A pair of Democratic lawmakers called on the National Academy of Sciences to review EPA's proposed science transparency rule over concerns it would inhibit the agency's ability to protect Americans' health and the environment by limiting the scope of research EPA could consider.


November 13, 2019
The EPA’s ability to meet its mandate to protect public health and the environment depends on the foundation of science that is independently verifiable; free from political interference, bias, or ideology; and without any conflicts of interest.

November 13, 2019

Democrats tore into an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan Wednesday that would bar the agency from relying on scientific studies that don't release their underlying data — a controversial proposal resurfacing this week with reports that the agency may expand the reach of the rule.