Ed Whitfield: “They are a factor. You accept that they are a factor?”

If that happens and if you're still at the EPA I want you to go to Fairfield, Texas with Congressman Bill Flores and explain to those people who've lost their jobs how you've improved their environment.

Why do you think the Supreme Court issued a stay of the Clean Power Plan?

I want clean air. I want clean water. But I don't want an organized attack on the energy-producing sector of America because of, to use Mr. McNerney's term, a political decision to go after hydrocarbons.

Well, some States would disagree with that. I've talked to many of them, and they view--even though you went through a process, that you set the standard.