"So this Groundhog Day recitation of how regulations will destroy the economy and jobs has already been shown to be flat-out wrong."
"Installing pollution control technologies on power plants could also lead to increases in the efficiency of the facilities and significant cost savings for companies."
"The EPA recently announced that it would only issue its proposal to regulate global warming pollution from refineries and power plants after meeting with business leaders and other stakeholders to sol..."
"EPA has also issued a rule that ensures that millions of smaller sources of global warming pollution are exempted from a requirement to obtain Clean Air Act permits."
"Historically speaking, have industries typically overestimated the costs of new regulations?"
"I think the larger point is true, that our lives are longer and safer and better because of a regulatory scheme that began to be put in place in 1900."
"We have to make sure that people don't, basically, allow themselves to be lulled to sleep by the ads by BP on every television station."
"We still may have an opportunity to measure the full flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We still have to monitor this cap in order to make sure it's working."
"This has just been a continuing pattern of prevarication that has been engaged in by BP since the very beginning. It's completely unacceptable."
"If it was 60,000 barrels per day, that would be $18 billion. So, this is no small matter. And if it is possible to measure the containment, to measure the oil flow with precision, then absolutely, it ..."
"Well, again, this has to be monitored very closely."
"Well, my greatest concern is that -- this is very early in the process. We're hopeful. But we're acting with an abundance of caution because this pipe has been under an enormous amount of stress over ..."