We can and we must do better. That is our focus at EPA.

In the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Congress committed to ensuring that disadvantaged communities benefit from Federal drinking water and wastewater infrastructure investments.

As we have discussed, Democrats and Republicans on this panel, it is not just enough to enact landmark legislation like this, but it is important that it be appropriately implemented and that we exercise our responsibilities with respect…

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

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

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

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

Before the Senator from Minnesota leaves the floor, I want to say I could not agree with you more. My dad used to talk to my sister and me about common sense. He would say: Just use some common sense. Thank you for appealing to our better…

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I ask unanimous consent to submit into the record a letter from a major utility's trade and labor organization in support of full implementation of the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.