"Prevention is key here, and we know what we have to do."
"No one thought we could do it. We locked in economic growth in the transportation industry for 5 years."
"A growing body of peer reviewed science shows people living downstream from coal mines face a greater risk of cancer, birth defects, and premature deaths."
"The Stream Protection Rule will place limits on the dumping of mine waste in headwater streams and mountaintop removal coal mines."
"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."
"the poisoning, again, by lead of children in Flint has shaken the Nation."
"to disrupt a rule that is protective of the people I think is the wrong thing to do."
"The majority party here, with all due respect, this is their philosophy, they demonize anybody in the Federal Government."
"The majority demonizes any Federal agency that tries to help; it doesn't matter if it is the EPA, they demonize."
"I think that is an important point. You did something right. Everybody is mad at you."
"the fact is the economics that were cited by my friend and that will be cited from my friend from West Virginia, and I have seen those surveys, those studies, they have been refuted, and I think our w..."
"The bottom line is people have to be kept safe."