Volume 166, No. 44 covering the 2nd Session of the 116th Congress (2019 - 2020) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“CLIMATE LEGISLATION” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Senate section on pages S1592 on March 5, 2020.
More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
CLIMATE LEGISLATION
Ms. KLOBUCHAR. Mr. President, I rise today to address several proposals with significant consequences for our environment that have come before the Senate this Congress. In particular, I would like to express my support for the joint resolution of disapproval concerning the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations to reverse the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan rules and my opposition to two amendments to weaken existing protections for public lands.
I am dedicated to promoting policies that address the urgent climate crisis. We cannot wait 50 or 100 years to address the climate impacts that threaten the livelihoods of our farmers, our businesses, our infrastructure, and our national security. It is for that reason that I oppose the administration's efforts to overturn, roll back, and weaken the Clean Power Plan rules, and I cosponsored S.J. Res. 53, a joint resolution providing for the disapproval of the regulations submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency to repeal the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan rules. In order to fully address our urgent climate crisis, the Clean Power Plan rules must be reinstated and strengthened.
It is also our responsibility to preserve our natural resources and pass them on to future generations through responsible conservation and smart policies that allow outdoor recreation to thrive. This Congress, the Senate has considered proposals--which I oppose--to reduce, diminish, or eliminate protections for existing national monuments and to prevent the use of funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund for land acquisition. These proposals would weaken the core mission of two critical conservation programs that preserve our natural resources.
I have voted against similar proposals that would undermine the Antiquities Act or the Land and Water Conservation Fund when they have been considered as amendments to comprehensive public lands bills because I believe that we need to do more to protect and conserve our public lands. I have also cosponsored Senator Udall's legislation to reinforce existing law on the establishment of national monuments and Senator Manchin's bill to provide full, permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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