"Despite efforts to try to minimize the significance of this spill, the facts cannot be ignored that 3 million gallons of acidic, heavy metal-laden water were released into the Animas River."
"Administrator McCarthy, we cannot put this water back in the hole, but I hope we can hold everyone accountable who negligently let it out."
"I have two coal-fired plants in my states that could be closed."
"It's bad enough when EPA's picking winners and losers in power but then you even get into the renewables."
"The higher rates will put a disproportional burden on low- and fixed-income residents in my district."
"they're in the business of picking winners and losers, and I appreciate your comments when I was here about this adversely affecting low-income people"
"I would hate for investors to come in and see this huge increase in electrical rates and decide to move their manufacturing somewhere else."
"The obvious negative effects are direct loss of several hundred highways jobs and an economic loss of $500 to $600 million per year."
"In the narrow topic of today's hearing of SCC, we could and have talked about many other peripheral issues related to the social cost of carbon."
"I just have a real concern that the way these rules are proposed, it is going to ultimately add to more carbon in the atmosphere."
"Do EPA's health effects include the negative health effects of employment cost?"