John Sarbanes

I guess I share Chairman Waxman's, I guess, anxiety that this might be overbroad.

I certainly understand why a power plant or a company that is exercising its best efforts to try to make transitions and take steps to meet environmental standards... expect to get some protection from liability and other exposure.

Policymakers should strive considerably less to create a single, specific, concrete industrial policy for the future of U.S.

I am very supportive of it and we want to avoid looking back from the future...

I want to commend the administration and you and other Cabinet-level officials for the commitment...

I will commit to you that I am going to make this a project of mine to find out the answers to those questions that you are raising.

I have heard endless testimony on this question, and I have gotten pretty comfortable with the idea that there is substantial number of situations in which there is nothing preventing the industry from developing.

We have heard another witness testify today.

The importance of Tier 3 is very large to States like yours and others that deal with smog.

I am very, very interested in the potential of these Tier 3 Tailpipe Pollution Standards, which are coming along to address pollution in our area.

I am concerned about the fact that Maryland, I think, is one of the, well, Baltimore has been found to have one of the highest levels of smog on the east coast.

I commend you for bringing out attention to Section 6 of the act that is under review here today because I agree with you that it creates a dangerous, it is a dangerous development to start putting aside the concerns about the science in…

Ultimately the health of the Bay will depend on reaching a tipping point where the 17 million residents of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed... develop good habits.

One of the things that we are glad to see is that there is an ambition now to collect metrics on a more regular basis, in terms of the health of the Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay is a national treasure.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for having this hearing, and I also want to thank the Ranking Member for bringing Jim Seay to the panel today.

It is a terrific idea and innovation because what it is doing is it is really helping make that connection.

Thank you for your testimony today.

If the ball is hidden and nobody knows, then that is not going to fulfill the objective.

Our objective here is to have a rule where there is disclosure that brings about the confidence of the American public.

I am from Maryland, as you know, and very focused on the health of the Chesapeake Bay and the Bay watershed.

I applaud you and the President for focusing in on these issues of safety.

We need to--a commitment from the Department of the Interior that there is going to be program integrity, that there will be no attempts to pick winners and losers.

I think the multiplier effect it has in terms of economic opportunities and, frankly, jobs that can be created is significant.

The industry keeps asserting that there is all this evidence that hydraulic fracturing can't contaminate underground sources of drinking water...