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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

I think it is in the interest of an energy policy that we have national predictability on fracking and on getting natural gas.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

It is my understanding that those cost-benefit requirements were as a result of congressional action that you need to do those types of analyses.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

This is a serious issue of public health for our community.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

There is also a human cost here. If it is your child that is suffering from asthma, and can't go to camp because of the warnings that are being given...

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

I do know Senator Inhofe wanted to nationalize our energy industry.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

To achieve the numbers that the EPA is proposing, just take a look at the work that was done in Maryland.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

Domestic oil production has increased--increased--every year President Obama has been in office.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

We desperately need an energy policy for this country.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

The good news is that the answer for all three lies in a similar solution.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

I think a national consumption tax can be done in a fairer way than our current income taxes.

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Ben Cardin
@bencardin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2012

I do not really have a public insurance option that may be competitive.

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Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowski· Republican · AK· Jun 18, 2012

Is it--it's not fair to describe that the risk or the consequences between waste water injection and CCS are comparable.

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Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowski· Republican · AK· Jun 18, 2012

Federal Research concludes quake risk from drilling low, avoidable.

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Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowski· Republican · AK· Jun 18, 2012

I think that the focus here on CCS and waste water injection is an interesting one.

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Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowski· Republican · AK· Jun 18, 2012

It sounds like so much of this is, is we are learning. That's an important piece to recognize in all of this as well.

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Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowski· Republican · AK· Jun 18, 2012

We were in West Virginia this weekend looking at--we were at the Marcellus. They were speaking exactly to that process of the recycling and how that all plays into it.

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Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowski· Republican · AK· Jun 18, 2012

We've got new EPA rules that essentially ban construction of new coal fired power plants unless CCS is out there.

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Lisa Murkowski
@lisamurkowski· Republican · AK· Jun 18, 2012

In terms of scale do we need to double the monitoring that we're doing?

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