Ed Markey

Students should be learning their ABCs, not their PCBs.

Our coasts are seeing unprecedented hazards from sea level rise, from warming of the seas, from upheaval in the biota in the fisheries, and from really catastrophic storm risk.

You are going to do a great job. Thank you.

So as you are looking back at the previous Administration, there are flaws in the methodology which was used by the preceding Administration.

I have complained about for years for its upland bias. In fact, I am filing legislation to rename it the Upland and Freshwater Conservation Fund.

By nominating Dr. Freedhoff to serve as the EPA Assistant Administrator for Chemical Safety and Pollution Protection, President Biden is tapping an incredible scientific mind, a tenacious fighter for the public interest and a brilliant…

I hope as you go about your responsibilities, you will make sure that this long tradition of overlooking oceans and coasts gets whittled back.

With all due respect to Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma, with whom we disagree on climate issues, I have to give credit where credit is due because it was Dr. Freedhoff, working with Senator Inhofe's staff, who got us to work together and pass…

I think you can sense we know her and we love her.

In my opinion, there is truly no better candidate than Michal Freedhoff for this very important job.

Well, ultimately a climate bill, the kind of climate bill that Joe Biden is proposing is going to be the greatest blue-collar job creation engine in our country in two generations.

Ron Klain is absolutely doing a fantastic job as chief of staff, and our country is fortunate.

This is jobs, jobs, jobs -- that`s what the Biden plan is going to create in our country. And again, they`re blue-collar jobs, largely. They are for those people who, as Joe says last night, who work with their hands.

A civilian climate corps will do the same thing, except this time it won`t just be restricted to white young men.

This is what it`s all about. And just like all the rest of his economic plan, he`s targeting it, not at the rich, but at those who have suffered in our society wondering whether or not there`s going to be a brighter future for them.

Would you consider elevating the Office of Environmental Justice to a standalone office, to give it more authority, more autonomy in its decisionmaking?

Even for the Trump administration, the behavior uncovered by the IG represents a shocking dereliction of duty that places the well being of corporate polluters ahead of the health of Illinois families.

When General Motors says they plan on not making any additional internal combustion engines after 2035, well, that just sets a standard that if we codify it and put it in the books, we have a real chance then to the whole industry follow…

On the question of environmental justice, Congresswoman Cori Bush and I have introduced an Environmental Justice Mapping and Data Collection Act that we can make a law in the country that ensures that we actually identify all those…

I agree with you, 100 percent. I just think this is something that is relatively easy for the industry to deal with, but again, it is going to require strong rules that are put on the books.

I just wish that the FTC now would use the penumbra of the authority of the Federal Trade Commission Act to protect consumers wherever possible.

I recently sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging it to investigate whether Google violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act by misleadingly marketing children's apps as compliant with the Children's Online…

The Supreme Court's decision was nothing short of a gut punch to the Federal Trade Commission and to the consumers which it serves.

The Commission also needs to address consumer protection threats that have indirectly arisen as a result of the pandemic.

A year ago, I sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging it to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to stop bad actors from preying on innocent consumers with COVID-related scams and price gouging.