User Clip: Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) R)

“Carbon Pollution is destroying the resources of rural America, it is destroying our forests, our farming and our fishing. The fire season in Oregon is two months longer than it was decades ago. The streams are smaller and warmer because of the smaller snowpack in the mountains…And the (Trump Administration) is saying we are going to try to increase the Destruction of our forests, increase the Destruction of our farming with less irrigation, increase the Destruction of our fishing, and we are here to say No…We are here to say we are going to resist this in every possible way we can. And let me mention that…they are going to renew coal leasing of our resources, that we own as Citizens…” close