Minister to reagan administrator reagan and collies, welcome to this hearing. I want to welcome the epa chief Financial Officer who is going to be a minister who is joining the administrator. Climate chaos is here. We are seeing the impact everywhere. The longer fire seasons, the more intensity the fires. The increased snowpacks and the impacts they have on the rivers and irrigation waters, the more Severe Weather events of the atmospheric rivers we have heard about on the west coast this year to warmer algae infested lakes across the country to dropped droughts and record shattering heat waves. Every part of the world is experiencing bees impacts and the damages the damage is staggering and is going to increase exponentially unless we act decisively. I believed to meet this moment, we have to accelerate our transition from fossil fuel energy to Renewable Energy and we have to tackle that crisis from the supplyside of fossil fuels as well as the demandside. This is why i adamantly oppo
Minister to reagan administrator reagan and collies, welcome to this hearing. I want to welcome the epa chief Financial Officer who is going to be a minister who is joining the administrator. Climate chaos is here. We are seeing the impact everywhere. The longer fire seasons, the more intensity the fires. The increased snowpacks and the impacts they have on the rivers and irrigation waters, the more Severe Weather events of the atmospheric rivers we have heard about on the west coast this year to warmer algae infested lakes across the country to dropped droughts and record shattering heat waves. Every part of the world is experiencing bees impacts and the damages the damage is staggering and is going to increase exponentially unless we act decisively. I believed to meet this moment, we have to accelerate our transition from fossil fuel energy to Renewable Energy and we have to tackle that crisis from the supplyside of fossil fuels as well as the demandside. This is why i adamantly oppo
Minister to reagan administrator reagan and collies, welcome to this hearing. I want to welcome the epa chief Financial Officer who is going to be a minister who is joining the administrator. Climate chaos is here. We are seeing the impact everywhere. The longer fire seasons, the more intensity the fires. The increased snowpacks and the impacts they have on the rivers and irrigation waters, the more Severe Weather events of the atmospheric rivers we have heard about on the west coast this year to warmer algae infested lakes across the country to dropped droughts and record shattering heat waves. Every part of the world is experiencing bees impacts and the damages the damage is staggering and is going to increase exponentially unless we act decisively. I believed to meet this moment, we have to accelerate our transition from fossil fuel energy to Renewable Energy and we have to tackle that crisis from the supplyside of fossil fuels as well as the demandside. This is why i adamantly oppo
Minister to reagan administrator reagan and collies, welcome to this hearing. I want to welcome the epa chief Financial Officer who is going to be a minister who is joining the administrator. Climate chaos is here. We are seeing the impact everywhere. The longer fire seasons, the more intensity the fires. The increased snowpacks and the impacts they have on the rivers and irrigation waters, the more Severe Weather events of the atmospheric rivers we have heard about on the west coast this year to warmer algae infested lakes across the country to dropped droughts and record shattering heat waves. Every part of the world is experiencing bees impacts and the damages the damage is staggering and is going to increase exponentially unless we act decisively. I believed to meet this moment, we have to accelerate our transition from fossil fuel energy to Renewable Energy and we have to tackle that crisis from the supplyside of fossil fuels as well as the demandside. This is why i adamantly oppo
[inaudible] [inaudible] additional investments to better protect the health and wellbeing of our constituents across america. Those of us who care about the future, and i think that is everyone of us, want in epa that has the resources that it needs to take common sense steps to combat the greatest threat that we face today, Climate Crisis. Every day we see the signs of the crisis, wildfires ravaging the land, polluting air filling our lungs, extreme heat, communities and much more. Here and around the world we repeatedly sound the alarm to reduce the emissions and a slow change for the health of the planet and our people. In 2023 the United States experienced 28 climate disasters. Let me say that again. 2023 looming United States experienced 28 climate disasters. For comparison, the u. S. Experienced only seven climate disasters in 2013. Only seven and 2013. In ten years the number of climate disasters has literally quadrupled. On top of that, the disasters the country experienced las