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By: Ted Lieu
By: Ted Lieu
Date: April 25, 2016
Issues: Environment

By Timonthy Cama

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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)

Lieu has big shoes to fill when it comes to climate change policy.

The Democrat last year won the seat of retiring Rep. Henry Waxman, a legislative giant who had sponsored the landmark cap and trade bill that passed the House in 2009 but died in the Senate.

"All of us in America deal with hundreds of issues, but there's only one issue that can kill humanity as a species if we don't do something about it, and that's climate change. That's why I'm so passionate about mitigating climate change," Lieu said.

The first bill Lieu wrote in Congress took a page from California's climate laws by seeking new limits on carbon emissions, increased energy production from renewable sources and energy efficiency rules.

He also has been in the spotlight as one of the most vocal advocates of investigating ExxonMobil Corp. and other fossil fuel companies over allegations that they hid what they knew about climate change from their shareholders and the public.

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