Analysis: Congress has held at least 15 climate hearings since Democrats won the House
There’s been one on climate change and infrastructure. Another on climate change and publicly owned lands. And there have been two on climate change and oceans.
“Today’s hearing on climate change is long overdue,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. said during his panel’s first hearing in the new Congress in early February. “We are feeling its effects now, and the influence of unchecked climate change is becoming more obvious every year.”
And Democrats are far from done. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reinstituted a special select committee on climate that was disbanded by Republicans when they were in the majority. It has yet to meet, but that panel, chaired by Rep. Kathy Castor , will collect facts about climate change from scientists and experts rather than focus on crafting legislation.
“This has got to be a priority for all of us,” Murkowski said. “Certainly in Alaska we view that there is no choice here.” “Drought, heat waves come and go naturally,” he said, “but the changing climate has intensified their impacts.”Republicans on the House Natural Resouces Committee, led by Rob Bishop of Utah, said Democrats were failing to address issues within the committee’s jurisdiction after holding seven climate-related hearings. During one panel, Bishop jokingly thanked Democrats for picking"the shortest month" to hold the hearings.
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