Edward Markey actually said...

New replaces old. Efficient replaces wasteful. Clean replaces dirty. High tech replaces low tech. Our country benefits when this happens.

For the first three months of 2012, coal only produced 36 percent of the electricity in the country.

We were offering the same opportunity to the coal industry in the Waxman-Markey bill.

We want the coal companies to innovate. We do not wish the miners ill by any means.