In the past, I have introduced legislation with others that has regulated mercury, including Senator Alexander, who has been a champion on this.

Do you believe that EPA can rewrite rule on their own that continues the Acid Rain Program for sulfur dioxide?

Senator Carper, your bill, the Clean Air Power Act, last year EPA did an analysis of the bill vintage 2005 that said its benefits would be $160 billion a year in 2020, and only at the cost of $9.5 billion at the same year.

What are your thoughts about this particular allocation process? And could we do something similar for other pollutants? And what about auctioning the allowances?

Do you believe that legislation with targets and timetables for mercury, for nitrogen oxide, for sulfur dioxide, could give certainty for environmental reductions and business decisions?

We have each year, Ms. McCarthy I am told, 600,000 babies born whose moms have high levels of mercury.

cap-and-trade and the Acid Rain Program have been an unqualified success, a stunning success

Notice I have not mentioned Kashmir at all.

I want to reflect briefly on a couple of comments that were made. I thought Senator Crapo said a lot of things that I agreed with.

the cleanest, most affordable form of energy is the energy we never use.

we need to enact strong, near term targets for emissions reductions.