I want the Forest Service to have new tools to get out in front of the problem and prevent our forest lands and the taxpayers from getting burned.

We believe this legislation, coupled with the funding outlined in the President's 2010 budget will stop the decline.

I actually have a slightly more pro-nuclear approach than many of my Democratic colleagues.

I just think what Ms. Lummis brings up is actually something we should keep in mind.

It is easy to paint a broad brush when we are talking about energy independence.

The President, President Obama has called for a full and honest accounting of the money we plan to spend.

I do not think there is any general question, even among the medical community in New Mexico, that there have been impacts from former activity.

Senator Murkowski was pointing out to me that in some cases the ski industry is actually working hard to save individual trees.

I remember being on the side of a fire, I'm sure Senator Murkowski has had this experience.

We are planting wind turbines around New Mexico like trees.

We are engaging in what will be this generation's version of the space race, an energy race to provide the technologies that will power the 21st century.

When we look at our job growth in our State, overall job growth is up 1.9 percent, but jobs related to the new energy economy are up 11.9 percent.

I think we are doing everything we can to protect them, starting with the lowest income consumers.

We support legislation that invests in using energy more efficiently and producing more clean energy at home and sets a cap on greenhouse gases to reduce emissions level guided by science to avoid dangerous global warming.

We need to continue to work with the ski industry.

We will either be buying the wind turbines and the car batteries from China, or we will be selling the wind turbines and the batteries to China.

Los Alamos National Lab has developed technology for geothermal, and there is going to be the creation of geothermal jobs in New Mexico.

No fewer than 23 of 50 States have already agreed to regional cap-and-trade programs to reduce greenhouse gases.