[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12736]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 TRANSPARENCY AROUND ENERGY PRODUCTION

  (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  

  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, almost a quarter of the United States' 
energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are from fossil fuels that are 
produced from our Federal lands and waters. However, recent Government 
Accountability Office reports show that we don't have very good data on 
much of these emissions, including the methane gas that is released 
that is leaked, vented, and flared.
  The first step on the path to reducing carbon pollution is simply to 
know what we are dealing with: What are the greenhouse gas emissions, 
and where are they coming from? That is why I am pleased to introduce a 
commonsense, bipartisan bill with my friends in the Climate Solutions 
Caucus and the congressional Safe Climate Caucus, which would simply 
require the Department of the Interior to calculate and publish, 
online, the amount of climate-damaging greenhouse gas pollution from 
oil, gas, and coal extracted from our Federal lands and waters.
  I urge the chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources to move 
swiftly to hold a hearing on this bipartisan bill and provide the 
American people with the transparency around energy production that 
they deserve.

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