Tom Carper

I want to commend the President; I want to commend Administrator Regan, Assistant Administrator Fox, and all of EPA for proposing a thoughtful, science based, national drinking water standard for PFAS.

I, for one, think that Federal funding and Federal support should go to the jurisdictions that have proven responsibility on regulatory execution.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union.

Thank you for your interest in housing people in this country.

I continue to hear from communities in Delaware... that need us to do a bit more.

Today, Vietnam and the United States enjoy some of the closest relations, not just trade relations, but actually defense related relations, standing up to China.

We literally served in a war with Vietnam and later on, years later, in a bipartisan way for a Republican President, worked to normalize relations.

The American Innovation in Manufacturing Act is a good example that really crystallizes what much of our environmental policy accomplishes.

75 percent of Americans, not just Californians, are being served by a utility with a net zero goal.

EPA's mission is to protect public health and the environment. However, protecting public health and the environment also protects and helps our economy to grow.

75 percent of the U.S. customer accounts are served by a utility that is committed to a 100 percent carbon reduction target.

Thank you for bringing your expertise and knowledge from a previous part of your life to this body.

When I drove to the train station today, I went by all these buses, school buses, that over the years to come are going to be converted to electric vehicles.

It is not just enough to clean up our air and address the climate change and so forth. We have to make sure that when we do that, we put people to work, and they have good jobs that they can support their families.

If we are smart, we will be able to help them stay in business and can continue to provide carbon free electricity.

One of the things that we have done as a Congress is to provide the resources to help change that.

The Clean School Bus Program is cleaning up communities and protecting our most vulnerable from being harmed as they ride the bus to school.

We need strong air pollution standards and Federal investments to help reduce emissions in these communities, too.

Reduced mercury and other air toxic emissions by nearly 90 percent at a quarter of the estimated cost.

Cuts electric power conventional air pollutants by up to 82 percent compared to 2021, and scales clean generation to supply as much as 81 percent of all electricity in 2030.

According to this report, the Inflation Reduction Act cuts household energy costs, cuts household energy costs, by up to an additional $112 per household on average in 2030 than without the law.

Clean air is essential to human health, as we know. Unfortunately, far too many Americans are breathing air that is unhealthy, and that burden is not evenly shared.

I am the last Vietnam veteran serving in the U.S. Senate.

For his efforts in the Vietnam war and I think for his service here in the United States, when John Kerry was nominated to be Secretary of State, he was actually confirmed.

All of us on this Committee and in the Senate and House receive inquiries from our constituents, and a lot of them are veterans.