the protection of clean air and clean water, on which we depend every single day.
Coal-burning emissions of sulfur oxides and nitrogen oxides help fuel our Nation's asthma problem.
It would be difficult to underestimate the urgency of shutting down coal power plants immediately.
One proposed rule on mercury and air toxics alone would be estimated to save as many as 17,000 lives every year.
Isn't there a disproportionate impact on communities near plants that emit mercury pollution?
My concern with that is that the environmentalists, rather than EPA and the appropriate branches of government, are establishing our environ...
Has EPA ever done a quantification of that in terms of the dollar cost to the economy then if people are sick? You know, it is expensive.
That $128 million--or billion ends up a payment that people make with their health. And in a sense, it is a transfer of wealth to the utilit...
I just really wanted to clarify that since I feel that Ms. Norton and myself were attacked unfairly.
I respect the right to own legal guns for self-defense, for other reasons, but I do not support illegal guns that are fueling drug wars and ...
What we have put forward is a simple statute that would prohibit gun trafficking in illegal guns to people who want to use them for illegal ...
Mr. Kucinich. American Electric Power claims the cost of complying with the regulations affecting power plants will result in an increase in...
Mr. Kucinich. Well, why don't you obtain the information and get back to this subcommittee so that we can make an evaluation of their claim?
Ohio's electric sector also has the dubious honor of ranking first in the amount of toxic air pollution emitted in 2009.
Will those plants stay closed?
We would like you to provide that information to this committee.
If you have environmental conditions that are aggravating human health, and the EPA is trying to mitigate those conditions with a rule, and ...
Mr. Kucinich. According to EPA's own regulatory impact analysis for the final Transport Rule, the agency's economic model suggests an averag...
