Ed Markey

Now, 21 million is two-tenths of 1 percent of 8.7 billion.

The Judgment fund was established in order to pay awards and attorney fees in cases where judges find that the Federal Government has violated the law, any law.

Help wildlife, plants, and fish survive.

If the Republican majority really wanted to help species recover, they would be adding funds for endangered species restoration.

Without this check, the oil, mining and timber industries can maximize their influence on government actions.

This week on the House floor Republicans are pursuing their 'Great American Giveaway.'

The Endangered Species Act has done exactly what it was intended to do, help wildlife and plants and fish survive.

If the Republican Majority really wanted to help species recover, they would be adding funds for endangered species restoration, not subtracting them.

They are attacking the ability of citizens to bring suits against the Federal Government when it fails to follow the law.

Today's hearing on the Endangered Species Act is another example of the great American giveaway.

This week on the House Floor, Republicans are pursuing their great American giveaway.

I think the rule of law is one of the things that makes this country great, and access to the courts is very important.

Even Congressman Steve Pearce called these plans some of the most successful ever.

Again, the coal industry now has 75,000 workers, but the wind industry has 75,000 workers and the solar industry has 100,000 workers.

We just across the board had a 15 percent reduction in our electricity rates. That is without coal.

Let's be honest. That is welfare for coal executives making rate payers pay 30 percent more. That is just wrong.

Peabody Coal has done a disservice to its workers.

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.

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

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

But the coal industry said NO. And Republicans said NO. They said NO to innovation.

Democrats saw this coming. In 2009, the Waxman-Markey bill allocated $60 BILLION to coal.

Newer, cheaper, cleaner technologies are beating coal. The free market is beating coal.

The reason coal has been on a massive decline in recent years has less to do with President Obama and more to do with the inability of coal to innovate and compete.