Tom Carper

As it turns out, Senator Kelly, our Ranking Member and yours truly have a keen interest in PFAS groundwater pollution, both in West Virginia and in Delaware.

I think there are some encouraging developments in this area, as you know, and our friends at GM have announced that they are going to stop producing gas and diesel-powered vehicles in 2035.

We have just been kicking the ball down the road, paying no attention to real reform.

But we are very concerned about approaches that set targets that just cost jobs and don't improve the environment.

We are headed for a world of more plastic in the oceans than living fish in the oceans.

I am hopeful that she will have the kind of bipartisan support she deserves.

I would just ask that when I come back I don't find that you have enacted six of your favorite pieces of legislation.

They are dealing with the practical problems in their communities.

I want to make sure, working with her and members of this committee, that as we move to clean up our air and address climate change, we don't leave any of them behind.

We want to be guided by science.

The Clean Power Plan, I know that there was a stay by the Supreme Court several years ago. My understanding, despite that stay, the power industry, utility industry writ large, has actually met and maybe even exceeded the reductions that…

We are people of deep faith, a number of us are. We are guided by our faith.

I want to thank you for your leadership. I want to thank Chris Mihm for his good work and your entire team.

I think it was in February 2009 President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

I always like to say leadership is the most important ingredient in anything that has something to do with success of the organization.

We have gone to hell in a hand basket here the last couple years in this report.

The last administration pulled out of this agreement, I think very foolishly.

We have a great opportunity to lead on climate change, a great opportunity.

I have long been interested in ensuring parity between environmental standards and our trade policies.

Some of the improvements I am most excited about are the new environmental monitoring and enforcement tools.

Katherine Tai would be terrific.

We have been really starved for a vaccine for the last several months, and I think we could be in a position all of a sudden to get actually more vaccine than we know what to do with.

I want to just follow up, it is been just a great hearing. What a great hearing to start off our new Congress.

I used to admire the way Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley worked together in the Finance Committee.

We can work on improving the air quality that we breathe; we can work on climate change; we can just do so many good things.