Barbara Boxer

Second, he also said that PG&E's own analysis showed that the newly discovered faults could cause ground shaking that was 70 percent stronger than the NRC license allows.

We are going to do more oversight.

Whatever it is, we have to make it better, I think.

Thank you so much for coming and caring about this vital American issue.

What is in place now at the EPA to make sure this never happens again?

D.C. Court upheld this, period, and it is moving forward. And if you don't act, you are going to be sued.

I believe you are. And I would close with this, the endangerment finding was started under George W. Bush, and we got that endangerment finding, that draft, and it was completed under the Obama administration.

I will use freedom of speech to correct folks who I believe are wrong and I will defend your freedom of speech to do the same.

The statute is unambiguous, and the Clean Air Act covers carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, without a doubt.

97 percent of the scientists who say that human activity is causing carbon pollution.

I will do everything in my power to make sure that this Clean Air Act... is upheld.

We really need to move on.

At some point, people have to come to the realization that the scam that is being perpetrated has got to come to an end.

We cannot afford to be too late and tarry away in needless and senseless discussions and undermine our ability to act.

It is just like the scientists who are divided on whether or not smoking caused cancer.

We know what happens when the environment is thrown under the bus. It is called China.

Most scientists who say no to climate change have ties to big oil and coal polluters.

My belief is that the propaganda machine behind the climate denial effort will go down in history as one of our great American scandals, like Teapot Dome or Credit Mobilier or Watergate, for that matter.

I ask this particularly on behalf of my home State, Rhode Island, which is a coastal State, which is at the front line of the undeniable effects of climate change.

The only place that we have a partisan divide is right here in the Congress.

Scientists have been telling us for years what would happen, for years.

For every dollar spent we get $40 in benefits.

Efficiencies of energy creates jobs, clean energy creates jobs.

The President's plan lays out a road map for action.

The American people have waited on the need to address this growing threat, and they want action now.