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

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

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

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

global climate change is real.

Would you just explain what you just said there?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

the cleanest, most affordable form of energy is the energy we never use, and I fully subscribe to that and so does our President.

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 want to thank you specifically, Senator Carper, for doing everything you have done to advance our cause in Washington.

Particularly at the Federal level, what can we do better to enable you to do more.

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

I like the quote I once heard from a pastor of mine who used to say, people would rather see a sermon than hear one.

We are trying to grapple with deficit reduction in Washington.

We cannot trade our dependence on foreign oil for a new dependence on Chinese-made solar panels, on Japanese electric vehicles, and on European wind turbines.

I know there are national organizations in which school districts participate and superintendents of school districts participate.