Ed Markey

Let us move over to Yemen, if we could, and political reconciliation over there...

General Allen testified that after Iraqi Security Forces and predominantly Shia militias cleared ISIS forces from Tikrit in March the Government of Iraq reestablished local Sunni leadership there.

We need a metric here that they are actually moving in a way that we have evidence in Yemen.

Well, I think that is an important real message to get out, that there is a success story there.

They have the same pathologies. And in the absence of ongoing interventions, the underlying pathology almost invariably recurs.

God bless Richard Nixon and the fantastic job he did on these environmental issues.

Even though you are trying to reduce the mercury, you are reducing this material that can go into the lungs of children.

And we thank God he did that.

The benefits are so obvious if children are protected from these harms.

The Clean Air Act is one of the most effective public health laws in American history.

I kept making the same amendment on the floor of the House of Representatives, saying that the auto industry should average 35 miles per gallon by the year 2020.

In order for the EPA to do their Regulatory Impact Analysis correctly, they need to count the additional co-benefits of the Clean Power Plan, the mercury rule, the ozone rule, is that correct?

Historically this area doesn't really factor in the weight of innovation in the technology sector.

So if we put babies into smog, it is going to cause real problems.

I moved over 200 megahertz of spectrum for the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth cell phone license.

The radicals are those who say do not worry.

I think that the 40 percent nonfossil pledge for India is stronger than India's carbon intensity pledge.

Our unemployment right now is 4.5 percent.

When you have the big three auto manufacturers and the Edison Electric Institute endorsing a bill to reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050, you are no longer in the radical extreme.

In Massachusetts, we have reduced our greenhouse gases by 40 percent since 1990, and our gross domestic product has gone up by 70 percent.

The fuel economy standards Senator Markey referred to earlier were at the time referred to--I still recall from an environmental activist, often a critic of the administration actually--said that that action back then was the single…

The Chinese President... committed to installing as much clean energy, renewable energy, by the year 2030 as all of the existing electricity capacity in the United States today combined.

The President is making a commitment based upon that law. It is on the books.

So I think it is important for us to make clear that we have begun to break this link between increase in gross domestic product and a reduction in greenhouse gases.

That would be equal to the entire installed nuclear energy capacity in the United States today, and they are going to do that in renewables.