Tom Carper actually said...

"We have the technology today to build a new coal plant that has minimal emissions of all of the conventional pollutants."

"But we must not forget the existing Clean Air Act where there is a lot of work to be done on the conventional pollutants."

"We do not have to throw up our hands and say, gee, we have to choose between having a quality of life that protects our kids, that protects our forests, or giving up coal."

"And I am not sure that other countries to whom we provide aid or assistance are all that interested in allowing us, through transparency, to actually know how the money is being spent."