Every utility operator today has told me they are forced to make fuel switching because of the uncertainty with the EPA.
I appreciate you coming and speaking to me directly. I do appreciate that. I'm considering everything we spoke about.
I'm concerned that this is short sighted.
There cannot be back door taxes on coal or coal-generated electricity.
But we need a willing partner. We've not had that willing partner, sir.
Even by EIA's own estimation coal is going to be the dominant factor of producing electricity for the next 30 to 40 years.
Basically the goal was to have energy independence, truly energy independence.
I approved the largest coal plant that was ever built in Colorado.
We need some friends. We need some people that will just look at it in a more level playing field.
My focus in the Senate and the committee has been on an all in, an all of the above, energy policy which I just think you heard my colleague...
You're taking the only affordable, reliable, dependable power you have and they're scrubbing that because of an idealistic approach they're ...
We're getting the living crap beat out of us by this Administration, my Administration being a Democrat.
I just back from the Bakken at the invitation of Senator Hoeven.
The visit to the Bakken really reaffirms my support for tapping the potential of natural gas.
I want you to know I am going to be vigilant about that provision because if you don't enforce it, you get front and center into something y...
We have tried to make significant efforts to address the very legitimate concerns that your constituencies are bringing up.
If we don't advance this, are they going to be reimbursed? Or what did the State of Michigan get for the $600 million that the taxpayers spe...
Can you tell me, if the Congress has acted this way, what authority do you have just to deem away an act of Congress that we are not going t...