Dr. Ciara Brennan:

I will share a couple of things we have noticed. When we look at the trends and the big climate litigation cases we have seen recently, they filter into how we should be framing policy and talking to people. It is not just about the word "climate" and the term "climate change". It is about justice, clean water, health and energy poverty. Those are things on which there is no backsliding. People care about all of those things. It is about how we frame those and these plans are good ways to address them. Different parts of the plans, especially with respect to just transition, deal with justice, how we approach energy, heating and clean water, and people's rights to those things. A positive way to look at this is that there is never going to be backsliding on those issues. We should look at how that is filtering into the litigation and consider how we can use that to get political cover for progressive policies, including these climate plans. I thank the committee for having me today.