On the recordJune 14, 2012
First, I want to thank the Senator so much--so much--for taking to the floor today and explaining to everyone within the sound of his voice that we face a very important vote, because we have a colleague on the other side of the aisle who wants to say to the Environmental Protection Agency: Stop your work and allow polluters to continue to poison this atmosphere and those of us who live in it. You are talking about mercury. There is arsenic, there is lead, there is formaldehyde. We have to say to the utilities: Clean up your act. We are giving them enough time to do it. I want to ask my friend a question, and then I will yield altogether to him. The question is, is my friend aware that the cost-benefit ratio of this rule that Senator Inhofe wants to now repeal is 9 to 1? In other words, for every $1 that we put in to make sure this pollution goes away or is controlled, there is $9 of benefits in health? Is my colleague aware of that?
