It's also important that we be sure these investments are the right investments.

The energy infrastructure needs of the country are so substantial that I think we can only regard these investments as a downpayment.

This is an important effort, both to create high quality jobs in the near term and also to begin to reverse the course that we've been on of under investing in our country's competitiveness in clean energy technology.

Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island met with the delegation

Reducing pollution there is a very good thing, and I look forward to learning more about how EPA plans to proceed.

One of the things that I think that we are talking about here is how to save lives and create jobs by promoting pollution reduction investments.

Mr. President, in the almost 9 years our Nation has been at war in Afghanistan, thousands of men and women have volunteered for service in defense of our country and the freedoms we hold so dear. These brave men and women sacrifice time…

almost all of our streams are polluted with a level of mercury that you cannot eat the fish.

I want to try to focus on the impact on the West.

I certainly support the Chairman's legislation to help do that.

Hopefully, we can stop robbing LWCF so that we can support more of these projects in the future.

$900 billion, yes, were being credited to the Land and Water Conservation Fund but it never gets there.

Mr. President, I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that a hearing has been scheduled before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The hearing will be held on Thursday, March 11, 2010…

We need to address the issues of global warming, which are real.

We need to move forward with getting ourselves out of the great dependence that we have on foreign oil.

Water really is the lifeblood of our communities and that we need to do a lot more with respect to how we protect that very precious resource.

Onshore oil production increased 14 percent in 2009.

The proposed budget includes funding increases for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, for renewable energy projects, and for climate change adaptation.