We have tri-partisan support for our legislation, Democrats, Republicans and one Independent from Connecticut.
Passage of our bill also provides a certainty of predictability that industry in America needs.
I'd like to first thank Senators Alexander and Klobuchar for working with me on S. 2995.
A majority of Americans--more than 186 million people--live in areas where there is enough air pollution to endanger the...
These are significant reductions that the EPA agrees will save more than 215,000 lives over a 15-year period.
We cannot wait for another 20 years to change our clean air laws and save lives.
One of the great joys of serving here in the U.S. Senate... was working with George Voinovich.
If the legislation we are discussing today is enacted, we will do better. Much better.
That is why we introduced the Clean Air Act Amendments of 2010.
I am going to ask for unanimous consent to enter for the record a number of letters of support for our legislation.
It is not one size fits all. One size does not fit all. But we will let market forces help guide that.
We say, for example, in our legislation, we want to see mercury emissions reduced by 90 percent by a date certain.
I find it very, very helpful that we have national policies established by Congress in this area.
One of the virtues of a trading system and using market, the highest market forces, to enable us to ratchet down emissio...
One of the virtues of having to set some targets out there, to say these are our mission's targets, is it provides, we h...
I think what you said is our efforts--EPA and our legislative efforts--our efforts will be mutually reinforcing in clean...
I would hope that we could be more aggressive on the limits on NOx.
I would just--I do not think you were here when we said this, but Senator Voinovich and I worked on this for, I think, f...
