Tom Carper

In Delaware we can come up on I-95 out of Washington and pick up State Route 1, which is a north-south road that takes you right down parallel to the ocean.

If the responses that are being crafted by EPA now are completed in short order and are truly responsive, we will make progress on a number of nominations.

I remain less encouraged with Administrator Pruitt's progress in responding to the 31 letters requesting information that have been sent to him by our side of this Committee.

I want to say, with respect to Andrew Wheeler, I don't know him as well as Jim Inhofe does, but during his hearing and in response to the questions for the record, I thought that he may have demonstrated a more transparent and straight…

I strongly urge a sense of conscience and a no vote.

I urge my colleagues to vote no on the nominations of Ms. White and Mr. Wheeler.

I fear that this Administration is taking us in the wrong direction in this arena walking away from the Paris Accord agreement.

The role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

The role of Government in this is not just to pass laws or regulations that sort of put the meat on the bones of the laws, but we also have the opportunity to make investments in R&D.

We also have an obligation in the Government to protect our health, the health of our public.

I ask for unanimous consent, if I could make a unanimous consent request, to submit for the record testimony refuting concerns mentioned about New Source Review.

We tried to do that in Section 143 of the FAST Act a couple of years ago, which requires the Department of Transportation to designate national electric vehicle charging hydrogen propane and natural gas fueling corridors.

I have supported clean coal technology for longer than probably a bunch of the people in this room have been alive.

Walking away from the Paris Climate Agreement--leaving the U.S. the only country in the entire world not part of this historic deal--and walking away from other climate and clean air protections are beyond irresponsible.

History shows that cleaner air is good for business.

We help create a nurturing environment for job creation, job preservation.

How do we make clean air a bipartisan issue again?

How important is it to have certainty beyond 2025 in this regard?

One of the most important things we do, as I said earlier, in Government is create a nurturing environment for job creation, job preservation.

I was pleased to work with Ted Stevens, Dianne Feinstein, and others on regulations, CAFE regulations, actually, on legislation raising for the first time in some 30 years fuel emission standards.

In fact, scrapping forward looking standards will only provide more uncertainty for businesses and threaten to stifle American innovation.

In order for the United States to continue to be the world's leader in this new clean energy revolution, we need both Federal investment in technology and common sense regulations.

We have to be leading the charge in technology to get that done; not only on the clean coal side, but also in the generation of storage for batteries.

Abraham Lincoln famously said that the role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

If I had any question about that a year or two ago, I don't anymore.