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 emissions is we give flexib...
One of the virtues of having to set some targets out there, to say these are our mission's targets, is it provides, we hope, the kind of cer...
I think what you said is our efforts--EPA and our legislative efforts--our efforts will be mutually reinforcing in cleaning up our air, whic...
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, for about 4 years dur...
I think that there are not many things that we agree on, but that would be one of them.
How do we strengthen our mission standards, how to reduce the emissions of unhealthy substances into our air, and at the same time not imped...
That is really striking.
But we are glad that you could be with us today.
