Ed Markey

A comprehensive, collaborative approach to managing our ocean resources will help prevent multi-use conflicts.

Planning is a fundamental, necessary part of organizing an efficient society.

Fact: The number of mining jobs in Appalachia has increased since the start of the recession.

Fallacy: More stringent enforcement of the Clean Water Act by the EPA and other federal agencies is creating an economic crisis in Central Appalachia.

Fact 3: Historically, the total number of mining jobs has fallen in places where the proportion of coal mined by mountaintop removal has increased.

Fact 2: Unemployment in counties where a high proportion of coal is mined by mountaintop removal is higher than in counties where coal is mined mostly underground.

This committee would serve The People well if its actions are based upon fact and not coal industry deception and often outright deceit.

Fallacy: Stopping the destruction of Appalachian mountains and streams would cost jobs.

This committee now shares that responsibility because President George W. Bush, with the stroke of a pen, trashed the Reagan SBZ rule just before leaving office as a present to a coal industry that wills itself to increase profit at all…

Fact 1: Underground mines create over 50% more jobs than mountaintop removal mines.

Let us not forget, President Ronald Reagan, your president, my president, in 1983 created the Stream Buffer Zone Rule because he realized the responsibility he had to protect America's water supply in the face of an industry that was…

So they will not receive a nickel under this program. The oil and gas industry will receive that money as they tip the people of our country upside down and shake the money out of their pockets.

They could have taken this money out of the $41 million of gas breaks for the oil and gas industry, but, no, they take it out of solar, they take it out of wind. And by the way, wind and solar, with the same amount of money, creates five…

I thank the gentleman. I'm glad you brought out the General Motors deal because the General Motors deal is only possible because of the grants and the loans that have been given for the batteries and for the new technologies under these…

I thank the gentleman. Sadly, these are the kinds of anti-innovation, anti-science, anti- public health schemes the public has come to fear from this legislative wrecking crew. When the Republicans beckon you to come ``all aboard'' on the…

The loan guarantee program was created at 2:30 a.m. in this room in July of 2005 in the conference between the House and Senate.

It is reckless to toss around accusations of illegality on the part of the Department of Energy officials who agreed to restructure the Solyndra loan guarantee.

But the Republican majority is recklessly exploiting this one case to advance a political agenda that is very clearly aimed at killing the solar, wind, and renewable industries.

They used Solyndra. Is this just a failed company that could not compete when faced with a 42 percent decline in the price of solar energy?

Last night, the Republican House passed a bill that would destroy the advanced technology vehicle loan program and destroy the renewable energy loan guarantee program and destroy thousands of jobs.

I appreciate Congressman Bishop's attempt to navigate Congress' clear obligation in this matter with the current realities of a profoundly flawed political process.

Out of this Republican Congress this year, they took away the loan guarantees for wind and solar but left them in for nuclear power.

So why isn't building new transmission for wind and solar also a valid public purpose?

I don't see it as being any different than Freddie or Fannie, where you create that moral hazard.

There are several suggestions out there about how we decrease the debt of our country.