John Sarbanes: “Like all of us, I hear from constituents about the need to fund and advance research on a variety of diseases.”

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.

Each of which--each of which--would hamper EPA's ability to regulate air pollution and, unfortunately, continues this Republican agenda of putting Big Oil interests over the interests of the public.

But these are dramatic changes that can bring us to a new place and, I think, have given many people a sense of hope instead of despair in the face of what we are seeing with a warming planet.

It's a national environmental treasure. It's a regional economic engine. It's been one of my top priorities since I've come to Congress.