Energy and Environment
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The issue of Energy and Environment is important to our district and to my work in Congress.
Protecting the environment is important to me and it’s important to our country. As a member of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee, hardly a day goes by that I’m not involved in some effort to protect the environment, develop clean energy, or conserve resources. I was one of just 17 Republicans to be honored by Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a “Green the Capitol” award for using sustainable business practices in my own office.
At the same time, our economy is completely dependent on energy. The cost of not increasing the availability of reasonably-priced energy will be more recessions, unemployment, and hunger. It is essential that we reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy and reduce our dependence of fossil fuels. The right way to do this is through innovation, competition, and encouragement. Punishment, taxation, and heavy-handed regulation won’t work. New technologies make me very optimistic that we will clean up our act without harming the economy.
My Green Office
Our Office is helping to Green the Capitol.
Memo on Cap and Trade Bill from Rep. Pitts to Constituents (6/26/09)