[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14203-14204]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               STOP CLIMATE CHANGE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, according to his transition team, the 
President-elect's administration will withdraw the United States from 
the Paris Agreement and scrap the Clean Power Plan because, they claim, 
it will increase energy bills without any measurable effect on Earth's 
climate. This is dangerous, shortsighted, and completely inaccurate.
  The United States took an important leadership role in making the 
Paris Agreement happen and should continue

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to help lead international efforts to combat climate change. The Clean 
Power Plan is an essential part of the U.S. keeping its end of the 
bargain.
  If the President-elect's administration follows through on its plans 
to abandon our commitments, the United States and the world will 
continue to suffer from increasing sea level rise, more frequent and 
intense natural disasters like Superstorm Sandy, and longer periods of 
drought, as well as other effects. What it won't do is save coal 
country jobs, something that the top Senate Republican pretty much 
admitted last week.
  As President Obama said, the President-elect's administration should 
carry on the tradition of honoring our international agreements, and I 
urge him and his team to continue the efforts begun by President Obama 
to stop climate change before it is too late.

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