It is well past time to clean up the Nation's power plants, and please pass this life saving legislation.

I have been joined at the hip with this man over here, George Voinovich. I have been drafting on him, as we say in NASCAR, drafting on him on diesel emissions for a long time, and together we have done great work.

Well, that is good. That is a pretty striking point.

OK. Thanks very much.

I think we can figure that out, and we will just work on that.

We will not support, in fact, we will vigorously oppose any changes that would undermine the enforcement of the new Source Review Program or other provisions of the Clean Air Act.

Thank you, Senator Voinovich, as well.

As Senator Carper has said, air pollutants do not recognize State boundaries.

We appreciate your leadership and your energy, the energy that you have brought to Delaware and clean energy, clean energy to our environment into our economy.

Secretary O'Mara is quite familiar with the large coal-fired plant, actually four plants, that we have in the southeastern part of Delaware at the Indian River Inlet and has been very actively involved with NRG, the utility, to cause them…

But again, if you are getting up to the 70-80 percent level at every one, what you have to do in order to achieve an overall 90, you are still only talking about very small differences between those plants.

I think that clearly it is a step that helps address some of the concerns that we have to get into attainment as quickly as possible to bring the benefits of clean air to our residents as fast as we possibly can.

A lower cap, I think, clearly could be achieved.

But it gives people the flexibility to make that choice and ensure that we have both clean air and reliable power.

I can remember times when we literally shut down our State's economy and would still be out of attainment because of the transport of the emissions from other places upwind.

As Senator Carper often says and said this morning, Delaware sits at the end of America's tailpipe.

Finally, I would like to mention briefly the 53 percent nationwide reduction in NOx. This is an important step forward.

Now what if instead of having those plants all co-located together in one part of Sussex County they had one or two in Sussex County, another north in Kent County, and another one all the way further north in New Castle County.