Cory Booker

New Jersey is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

there is a direct correlation to too much CO2 and respiratory problems and disruptions of fisheries and disruptions of economies and sea levels rising.

Climate change does not impact everyone equally. Low income and minority communities will be disproportionately impacted by future extreme weather events.

poor people suffer because now folks who, 100 years ago, when they couldn't get food, they would go to the river and fish.

The EPA has taken important first steps toward reductions of carbon emissions by setting standards that will cut carbon pollution from automobiles and trucks nearly in half by 2025.

when temperatures warm, you have a lot more cases respiratory problems, including things like asthma, right?

30 years is simply too long to wait.

I also want to thank EPA for proposing a rule to clarify the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act.

CO2 in the air causes warming, correct?

I believe right now it is appropriate and important that the proposed EPA budget for 2015 needs to make addressing climate change as one of the Agency's top objectives.

I admire your courage in this overly partisan debate.

it is very obvious that the EPA's mission to protect public health is severely urgent.

I think, actually, the REGIs are phenomenal things.

I really do pray we can get that done next week here in a bipartisan way.

I am very excited about your leadership and the opportunity as a new Senator to serve with you.

I intend, next week, to mark up a bill, the Manchin bill, that he wrote with Senator Rockefeller and myself, the Chemical Safety and Drinking Water Protection Act.

So if you have effects on the climate, it affects everything from the health of our oceans, from coral reefs to the fishing patterns that, frankly, affect the industries of a State like mine in New Jersey, correct?

The Senator has it. But before I get to my Senate colleague from Rhode Island, allow me for a moment to answer the question of my colleague because I am grateful that he asked me about what is happening in New Jersey. We know this, that no…

Because he brings up a tremendous point. For all of us who are competitive and have this belief that this Nation of ours should remain a leader in the globe, the Senator from Rhode Island makes a very good point. We are a nation that has…

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I will ask the Senator about some of the vulnerable communities in his State, but I will go about it this way. I have such great memories of my father and grandfather, both of whom passed away. Probably the first time I passed through the…

I appreciate that from the Senator from Rhode Island. I have only been in the Senate for about 4 months. As soon as I made a decision to run for this office, I asked for national security briefings to study hot points in our country. I…

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