Tom Carper

Global warming is real. If we do not get our act together there will be devastating impacts for our kids and our grandchildren.

I have great concerns about losing the deal that everyone embraced around cars including a road map for automobile manufacturing for this country.

If the mobile source rule cannot be implemented does that mean that the California waiver will go forward?

Without the greenhouse gas endangerment finding can the EPA implement this new mobile source rule?

Our bill will save, we are told, over 215,000 jobs, save over $2 trillion in health care costs.

Let us see if we could figure out how to do that. That would be a wonderful thing.

I think the idea that we are not energy independent, not even close to it, in fact we are going the wrong way, is not a good thing for our country.

I think we can agree on the idea that we have this huge dependence on fossil fuels, and it is not a good thing for our country.

We have countries like China which do not have to go through the democratic processes that we do.

The competition is going to be for clean energy jobs in this industrial revolution.

Any EPA action should be targeted, transparent, and allow for a smooth transition to a lower carbon economy.

Global warming pollution is also one of the greatest threats to public health and the environment.

If we really want to unleash an economic tsunami of jobs and economic opportunity, new jobs and employment in this country, what we need to do is put a price on carbon.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has reaffirmed the position... that global climate change caused by human activities is now underway and it is a growing threat to society.

I am a major proponent of expanding our dependence on nuclear power.

We need concerted long-term investment in restoring this critical ecosystem.

The Defense Department called climate change an accelerant of instability that could have significant geopolitical impact.

Global climate change is real.

OK. What a challenge, on top of everything else. Thank you. Please proceed.

It is actually exciting and inspiring to see what the governor is proposing in his new Executive Order.

I got to drive one of those.

The most efficient energy we generate is the energy we save, that we don't ever have to generate.

I am going to ask, when the hearing is over, if you would just spend a few minutes with members of my staff...

We are trying to grapple with deficit reduction in Washington.

We should not think of our efforts to modernize facilities and adopt cleaner energy as simply an environmental initiative, although it is that.