05/11/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"No one thought we could do it. We locked in economic growth in the transportation industry for 5 years."
"How do you know what to do? We have the Clean Water Act, we have the Safe Drinking Water Act, we have the Surface Mining Act."
"Of course we want industry. Of course we want jobs. You have to have that."
"Mountaintop removal coal mining has already destroyed more than 500 mountains, buried more than 2,000 miles of headwater streams, and polluted thousands of miles of downstream surface waters."