"We want to do it safely and well. We want good transparency."
"Are you willing to have either you, Mr. Secretary, or your designee come out to my State and actually take a look on the ground at the situation and talk to some of our companies before you proceed?"
"I believe that this is a rule that you are developing and implementing as a result of some conditions in the Appalachian region of the country."
"We have no problem requiring that our companies provide what is in that frack fluid so that people know and it is fully transparent."
"That is the kind of thing that does not work for business."
"If we want to continue to develop clean coal technology, we've got to have a realistic rule."
"Their concern is in regard to the Synthetic Miner Source Rule. Right now we operate under a consent agreement that expires, or the tribe does, excuse me, they're operating under a consent agreement, t..."
"So is that broken out between what is required to do the study, as defined in scope by the Congress, and the additional work that you just referenced?"
"If we're going to empower industry, and if we're going to empower investment to produce more energy in this country and do it with good environmental stewardship, they need to know the rules of the ro..."
"But it's important to distinguish between a rule and between guidance and understand that under a State primacy program, the State has the authority to make its own determination."
"Does this new performance standard that you're proposing apply to new plants, only new plants, or does it also apply to existing plants?"