One of the major contributors to air pollution in and around schools comes from those school buses that the kids ride to school in.

But beyond just refusing to do its part, the Administration has also held up any Federal regulation on climate change--despite the Supreme Court ruling that the regulation of carbon dioxide is required under the Clean Air Act.

For the past 8 years, the Bush Administration has not provided the leadership we need on some of the biggest environmental challenges of our time--global warming, energy independence and cleaning up our Nation's air.

I am going to say some fairly critical things about the Bush administration.

We want you to be the leader in figuring out how do we deal with sequestration of CO/2/, we want you to be the leader in helping us to find ways to reduce SO/x/, NO/x/ and mercury discharges and to meet an aggressive schedule.

When you are a neighbor, you have to be concerned about this.

Is there anything that the State or Federal Government should be doing to incentivize that best practice, or is nothing needed?

We are going to try to do our best to make sure that you are treated fairly going forward.

I thought 90 percent sounded pretty good.

I will work with Governor Bredeson, who has been on the site. I will work with Mr. Kilgore and with this Committee to make sure that this does not get lost in the shuffle.

Roughly what percentage of your mercury emissions do you think you are capturing with that approach, as a co-benefit?

My hope as we leave here is that TVA will leave with a renewed commitment to be the kind of steward that they are expected to be.

The technology is already there, Senator Alexander, they really are, we can do, for safer disposal.

Well, we will have a new cop on the beat in about 2 weeks.

The carbon capture is obviously going to be a very expensive proposition, and then you have, what are you going to do with the carbon after you have captured it.

Give us some examples of how that $100 million is going to be spent.

We have about 25,000 people this year that are going to die from the stuff that we breathe.

That is pretty encouraging.

We are going to continue to not only be present as we watch the work, the cleanup that is done in conjunction with this particular disaster.

TVA ought to be a role model for us. You should be the gold standard.

So what I would like for us to do is to look at each of the elements of coal-burning for electricity that creates an environmental problem for us and get on a fast-track, I say mini-Manhattan project, to solve the problem.

What we really need here... is a series of mini-Manhattan projects on how we can safely and cleanly use coal in this Country to make electricity.

Jade, some day you may sit up here and chair this Committee. You never know.

yesterday I was here on the floor and I shared with my colleagues news about work that Senator Voinovich and I and others have done to reduce the diesel emissions that come from the approximately 11 million diesel engines across the…

The legislation that we celebrated passage of yesterday is another indication we can still do that right here in the Senate. ... I want to say it is $12, $13. I ask Senator Voinovich, if I may, through the Presiding Officer, is my…