Barbara Boxer

Until we put a significant price on carbon emissions that really reflects the true impacts they are having on the global climate, we are not going to drive the kind of change that we need.

Thank you very much.

What we are doing in our bill is we are trying to ease the burden on the smaller refiners.

Our goal is to stop sending $1 billion out of the country for foreign oil.

The U.S. should commit to a stronger national and international role to help stabilize climate change.

Climate change acts as a threat multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world.

Projected climate change poses a serious threat to America's national security.

As we sit here today, we are in danger of letting the energy technology revolution pass us by.

The U.S. must seize opportunity in global clean energy markets.

Sixty percent favor it, and it has been described to them not in very glamorous terms.

This is an urgent issue, Madam Chair, that needs to be dealt with now, for the sake of our national security, for the sake of our environment.

I am proud of what Maryland has done in the leadership on global climate change establishing its own State program on climate change.

He said that is finally going to make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.

I am very proud to say that President Obama today, in a speech, noted the markup in this Environment and Public Works Committee today.

I very, very strongly believe it is time that these power plants were held to account.

The cost of doing nothing is a very important point to keep on making. It is huge.

Without the certainty, you are not going to have the investments.

The question you raised is answered in the EPA modeling.

Some of my colleagues call it a tax. All of them do, on the other side. They never called it a tax when it was in the Clean Air Act's acid rain program.

The urgency of this bill is there. And I believe that one of our responsibilities is to be able to tell that story of urgency to America.

Polluter should pay. But we want to make sure the consumers are protected.

We do know that job losses have been reduced dramatically. Economists tell us the stimulus package worked.

I just want to applaud the Chairman and Senator Kerry for the framework of this legislation.

I would give anything if I had a John Warner still sitting here.

Climate change, global warming, isn't waiting for who is a Democrat and who is a Republican.