"I hope will intensify your---- and telescope the timeframe that it will take for you to present a final plan to protect against a catastrophic event occurring because we know al-Qaeda is out there."
"the money that is used for land acquisitions through the Land and Water Conservation Fund comes from funds paid to the United States by oil companies"
"Is the Service carrying out similar or better studies today for the Deepwater Horizon disaster?"
"it does not come from general tax revenues from our struggling families and small businesses, but from extremely profitable oil companies"
"One of the most powerful arguments made in the course of trying to get a fair settlement from Exxon after the Exxon Valdez spill was an economic study conducted by the State of Alaska."
"Can you report that back to the Committee, please?"
"Only big oil will claim that they can drill safely and look to expand drilling in the wake of our country's worst environmental disaster and the finding of their systematic failures."
"So this Groundhog Day recitation of how regulations will destroy the economy and jobs has already been shown to be flat-out wrong."
"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."
"Installing pollution control technologies on power plants could also lead to increases in the efficiency of the facilities and significant cost savings for companies."