Frank Pallone: “The amazing thing that I find is that even my own utilities, during Earth Day myself and my other Democratic colleagues…”

“The amazing thing that I find is that even my own utilities, during Earth Day myself and my other Democratic colleagues in the House did a bus tour around the State, and one of the places we went, I think it was in the district of the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne), was a generating facility in Linden, which was building a new plant that would reduce carbon dioxide and other emissions by 30 percent. Here are these utilities, and this is the business community, telling us that they can address carbon dioxide emissions effectively at the same time that the Bush administration tells us they do not want to regulate it. So the President is just not being realistic about what can be done. He is sort of living in the past, in my opinion; and it is very unfortunate. I want to thank the gentleman.”