Tom Carper

No kidding. Your daughter?

I am glad that Senator Cardin is holding this important hearing today.

We have been struggling a little bit trying to have our 126 Petition take into account the emissions that are coming from outside of our immediate corridor.

Those of us who live in the DelMarVa Peninsula and the Mid-Atlantic Region... we appreciate everything that you can do there.

I appreciate the leadership of Senator Cardin on this issue and a whole host of others.

The idea is to take about 15 percent of the nutrients from the poultry houses, take them to this facility, treat them under high temperature, create a pelletized organic fertilizer.

We created a Nutrient Management Commission that required all of the farms that spread nutrients to have a Nutrient Management Plan.

We believe that, you know, now is the time to readjust sails and find those kinds of market-based economic solutions.

We talk a lot about carbon dioxide emissions and the need to rein in carbon dioxide emissions, and I fully agree with that.

We would reduce the sulfur dioxide emissions by some 80 percent by 2015 and mercury emissions by some 90 percent by 2015.

We are trying to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by at least 70 percent between now and 2015.

As your neighbor to the east, we want to be your partner in getting us to a cleaner, healthier Chesapeake Bay.

I say thank you as a recovering Governor.

I am confident that if we use market-based mechanisms, rather than traditional command and control approaches, we can incent the environmental outcomes that we need while keep our industries strong.

We must hold ourselves accountable, measure progress and verify the environmental benefits to regain the trust of taxpayers.

As a peninsular State almost entirely surrounded by tidal waters and with the lowest mean elevation of any State, Delaware will likely be more affected by sea level rise than any State in the Nation.

I believe there will soon be a time when tackling water quality issues and implementing the solutions seem perfunctory.

Delaware adopted a nutrient management law. This unique law requires nutrient management plans for the vast majority of farms in Delaware.

I think we would all acknowledge that we need every country, especially the major emitters, to begin reducing their emissions.

The Chinese are actually well ahead of us in terms of energy efficiency for the cars they are putting out on the road.

We need to provide the leadership.

God, it is great to be back because this is the best Nation on earth. It is the shining city on the hill. We can and must lead.

Some of my friends like to talk about putting a tax on carbon. I do not think there are a lot of people who are going to vote for that.

If we are smart about putting together a piece of legislation that not only addresses security concerns that flow out of climate change...

We need more nuclear. We need more clean coal. We need more solar, we need more wind, we need to create more biofuels.