We look forward to working with you and providing you the technical assistance you need to move forward.

We are moving aggressively to meet that commitment in hopes of proposing a rule in early 2010.

We can no longer wait for clean air.

I agree with a good deal that Senator Voinovich has said. I especially agree with his comment.

The best way to do that is through comprehensive energy legislation.

Well, thank you for that preview, and actually for a very encouraging preview.

Could this rule be litigated and create some further delays?

I have faith that the EPA can write new and stronger rules to regulate these pollutants.

Not only did we get 100 percent utility compliance, we did so achieving greater emission reductions at a faster rate than we expected at about one-quarter of the cost.

I appreciate and thank you for inviting me here today to testify on the work that we are going to do together to mitigate the impacts of emissions from power plants.

I intend to join my colleague Senator Voinovich, who has taken the lead in drafting legislation that would provide EPA with narrowly tailored authority to implement CAIR, or its replacement.

At the end of the day, I think we are going to get something done, and it is because of really the participation of everybody at this table.

We didn't feel like it was appropriate for those allowances to be shifted over to the coal generators.

Well, good. Thank you. I think I understood that.

In the past, I have introduced legislation with others that has regulated mercury, including Senator Alexander, who has been a champion on this.

Do you believe that EPA can rewrite rule on their own that continues the Acid Rain Program for sulfur dioxide?

Senator Carper, your bill, the Clean Air Power Act, last year EPA did an analysis of the bill vintage 2005 that said its benefits would be $160 billion a year in 2020, and only at the cost of $9.5 billion at the same year.

trading makes a lot of sense with respect to nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide, but not with the neurotoxin mercury.