The Latta amendment will reverse 40 years of clean air policy, allowing our national goals for clean air to be determined by corporate profits, not public health.

This is the most anti-environment House of Representatives in history.

I have talked to Mr. Barton, and as I understand it, there is a lot of scientific research that has been peer reviewed on the question of the impact of carbon emissions, global warming, climate change, and yet Mr. Barton doesn't believe in…

The Whitfield amendment will eviscerate the law's ability to require power plants to install modern pollution controls.

The Whitfield amendment would ensure that power plants would not have to control toxic air pollution for at least 7 years.

We should be passing legislation to unleash American innovation and create American jobs in the new energy economy.

I am concerned that these changes would block EPA from ever reissuing the rules for air toxics.

One hundred and twenty-five votes to weaken the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.

We are going to pass laws... without a single moment of hearings just because some representatives want to and maybe the Republican party wants to respond to big business.

We should hear from States, industry, public health groups, clean air advocates and other stakeholders before voting on these radical clean air amendments.

When you propose a rule, you have to establish a record of the scientific basis for your findings.

I am very pleased to join with so many Members of the House to express our profound concern, and strenuous opposition, to the impending request by the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to seek a unilateral declaration…

We hear about job-killing regulations, and I haven't seen anybody substantiate the job-killing part of the regulations, but we know that a lot of this pollution kills people, and we have that well documented.

I would like to offer my report to be in the record, and that is the 125 in our tally votes to weaken the Clean Air Act.

As I understand it, in 2005, the Congress passed the Loan Guarantee Program. We did this on a bipartisan basis because we wanted to move forward with these enterprises that would give us renewable and alternative energy rather than…

The grid is very interdependent, that these disruptions in one location can have far-reaching consequences.

As Congressman Waxman indicated, there is at least 100 gigawatts of excess capacity above the existing capacity.

We need to understand what happened, who should be held accountable, and how we can avoid future losses.

This Republican House has been the most anti-environment in history.

The benefits of this rule sharply exceed the costs by as much as 13 to one.

The first rule, the mercury and air toxics rule, will prevent up to 17,000 premature deaths each year.

The EPA has clearly failed to assess the impact of that rule on a cumulative basis in light of its other promulgated, proposed and pending regulations governing electric power generation.

The first time they did this assessment in July 2010, the estimate was that 81 gigawatts of coal generation were likely or very likely to retire.

The FERC staff started this project in the summer of 2010 before EPA had proposed or finalized certain rules.

The law requires cumulative analysis. Under Executive Order 13563 signed by President Obama in January of this year, federal agencies must assess the cumulative impact of their proposed regulations including costs.