I don't want to get off of this spill today, but this is important.

I don't know one Senator who said that we are not interested in moving toward cleaner coal.

I would quote from Thomas Friedman, sometimes we have a real problem that is masquerading as an insoluble problem.

Knowing what you know now, would you have taken some different steps than you took?

If I was sitting there and somebody said do you wish you would have done more to stop this, I would say yes.

We want to be the leader.

Would you please provide a list to Senator Carper's subcommittee and to the full Committee of all potential or known weaknesses at other impoundment or landfills?

The testing is not showing that everything is golden in any way, shape or form. These are serious problems.

We fight like the devil, and I come from a very crowded State, New Jersey, and boy, these chemicals are chased down like the most ruthless bandits.

Today I call on your Committee at a minimum to require the orderly phase-out of all wet storage of this toxic ash.

That is, Senator, really unfortunate, that TVA took a week before they said, stay out of it.

I hope you will go back and show me this.

Well, let me make a suggestion. And I think that Tom Carper really picked up on it and I want to thank him.

I would like to take a moment to say that our thoughts go out to all the people affected by the spill.

We can and we must do better. We have cleaner technologies.

We do not. That is why I wanted to--please go on. I just wanted to make sure you knew.

But coal ash contaminates groundwater across the Country.

It is outrageous that landfills that hold our household garbage are more regulated than pits holding this toxic coal sludge.

You need to have a plan to clean this up.

But the point is, given the facility's high volume of waste, do you agree it makes sense to invest in strong waste management practices?

The great challenge of how we produce and consume energy in this Country cries out for leadership from the power industry.

I think your point that we should consider asking, and I will ask Lisa Jackson this when she comes before us, there ought to be a way to say that that wet storage, we have enough proof to know that it is very dangerous.

I am talking about the--I mean, that is wonderful and we all applaud that and we want you to do that.

We cannot forget all of the stuff that is in this muck is stuff that is so dangerous that we pass laws to get it out of the air.

That is not cleanup, just leaving the stuff there, in my opinion.