I think these next 2 years may be the most important 2 years that I serve in public office, because of the condition of our economy and the threat, in all aspects, to the world economy.

We can no longer afford inaction on climate change or air pollution.

I hope that EPA drops the mercury rule case, and does not appeal it further.

Roughly what percentage of your mercury emissions do you think you are capturing with that approach, as a co-benefit?

I thought 90 percent sounded pretty good.

Well, we will have a new cop on the beat in about 2 weeks.

When you are a neighbor, you have to be concerned about this.

The carbon capture is obviously going to be a very expensive proposition, and then you have, what are you going to do with the carbon after you have captured it.

TVA ought to be a role model for us. You should be the gold standard.

We are going to try to do our best to make sure that you are treated fairly going forward.

We have about 25,000 people this year that are going to die from the stuff that we breathe.