Political Quotes

“Today along with Senators Lincoln Chafee and Judd Gregg, I am introducing comprehensive legislation to reduce harmful emissions from our Nation's power plants. Developed after extensive input from electric generators who would be affected by such legislation, leaders in the environmental community, and State and local regulators who will enforce any new requirements, the Clean Air Planning Act is a balanced approach to a difficult challenge. The Clean Air Planning Act takes a market-based approach that would aggressively reduce electric power generators' emissions of sulfur dioxide, SO2, by 80 percent, nitrogen oxides, NOX, by 69 percent, mercury by 80 percent, and return carbon dioxide, CO2, emissions to 2001 levels within a decade. It provides planning and regulatory certainty to electric generators who would be required to achieve these regulations. The negative public health and environmental impacts of SO2, NOX and mercury emissions have been well documented. While there is bipartisan agreement that emissions of these three pollutants from power plants need further control, there is disagreement over how much and how fast.”