John Sarbanes: “Our failure to get the testing done early in effect means we missed the containment window and now have to move rapidly…”

It is important to be clear that EPA's proposed standards are reasonable, performance-based emissions standards and constitute neither a national electric vehicle mandate nor an internal combustion ban.

The goal was not to federalize elections across the country; the goal was to set some uniform standards.

The health of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed can only continue to improve through robust Federal, state, and local partnerships.

We would like to thank Rep. Sarbanes for introducing this important piece of bipartisan legislation