Barbara Boxer

But your consumers will be kept whole.

EPA calculates that the House-passed bill allocates to electric utilities in South Dakota a number of emissions allowances that greatly exceeds the amount of CO2 emissions that utilities in that State emitted in 2008.

The Supreme Court said carbon is covered under the Clean Air Act, so we are going to clean up.

Well, if you are worried about the consumer, I am as well, and we are going to make sure our consumers are not hurt.

Putting a ceiling on greenhouse gas emissions is an act of patriotism twice over.

I found this to be extremely important, and I thought the three of you were very direct in answering our questions.

I would be glad to organize a committee letter, and whoever would like to sign it, we will make it an official request.

It is projected that 161 new 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plants would result from that bill as a result of putting a price on carbon there through the market.

We are going to have to lessen the carbon in the atmosphere.

We have a President who believes that this is an economic opportunity.

We have to protect our families from pollution.

The Supreme Court ruled that carbon is a pollutant covered by the Clean Air Act.

Right now, Government's hand provides incentives to pollute.

Legislation that provides powerful incentives for the development of clean energy technologies will put America to work.

Clean energy legislation is jobs legislation.

This country can and should be a leader of the clean energy revolution.

I share that concern. I also believe it is hard to say you are for individual rights and community rights versus big government or big business if you do not understand that.

Let me just say on NEPA, we worked together to make sure, when the stimulus funding came, we were able to make sure that NEPA did not slow up the process.

Can that be a model that we could use in the Chesapeake Bay program, recognizing that we also must provide the resources and tools so we can realistically achieve the objectives that we say?

I think that we all agree that we should have goals set under the current way it is done.

I remain very concerned that simply lifting sanctions could reward Sudan without securing assurances that the Sudanese Government will take steps to end conflict in the Darfur region and in the South.

The very first thing when I was so honored to take the gavel of this committee is put together this book called Voices of the Senate on Global Warming.

Given these figures, and our testimony today, it is clear that legislation to provide clean energy incentives to reduce foreign oil dependence does not cost the U.S.--it saves both money and lives.

But that being said, if we just turn our heads and say, oh, this hearing should be about the national security implications of cap-and-trade, I would like to be a little more basic here and focus on what are the national security…

If there is one thing that all Americans, whether they are Republicans or Democrats or Independents, can agree on, is that our Nation relies too much on foreign energy and that this reliance puts our Nation at a security risk.