Frank Lautenberg: “What I believe is is that they want to--they want to be environmentally pure. They want clean air.”

We also need to expand our research into climate change so we better understand the coming impacts, and how to mitigate them.

I'm proud to have written the only Federal law on ocean acidification--'The Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act'.

We simply can't afford to ignore the lessons from past accidents and crashes.

I am deeply troubled with this budget. The Coast Guard does not have adequate funding to do everything we expect them to do.