You can go to the scientific community, and they are appalled that we haven't taken action more readily, because the scientific record is so compelling.

Rhode Island has 10 percent asthma.

I am not going to fight to see jobs lost.

These cuts mean that our drinking water has a far greater chance of contamination.

What has happened is that the tight leash, the muzzle that the Bush administration improperly put on the EPA for years has been released.

It is actually quite dangerous for the health of our communities.

If you look at the cost benefit ratio of the Clean Air Act, it is $30 of benefits for every dollar invested.

The biggest thing that we have in Rhode Island is the Dunkin' Donuts Center, it seats 14,500 people.

It threatens, just that program, 5,000 jobs, just that program.

That is a pretty big chatter strip to go driving across and pretend that everything is going to be just OK.

I don't think that figure is in any serious dispute.