Thomas Carper
The Public Record
The role of Government is not to be the lap dog for business, but to try to provide a nurturing environment for job creation.
I see demand is going up but the price is going down. I know that seems counterintuitive, but that is what is happening.
I think Government has many roles to play. I think one of the most important roles we have to play is to try to provide what I call a nurturing environment for job creation, job preservation.
Investments made, in some cases in the Midwest, will actually benefit those of use who live in the rest of our country.
These clean air regulations help us save billions of dollars on public health costs while providing a multitude of opportunities for good paying American jobs.
What I am interested in doing is making sure if we burn it, we have a lot of it, as we burn it to create electricity that we just burn it in a far more, a far cleaner way.
We end up having to reduce our emissions in order to try to be in compliance with Federal environmental guidelines.
It is just not fair. We had to compete with these folks in terms of electricity costs.
Put another way, Clean Air Act benefits outweigh the costs by a margin of 30 to 1.





