Kirsten Gillibrand actually said...

"If you believe that mercury is a threat to public health but oppose the remedy of reducing mercury air pollution from power plants because it is too costly, what, then, do you think you should do, or ..."

"I need you to care about human health and really believe that the cost, when human health is at risk, when people are dying, is far higher than it is the cost to that polluter to clean up the air and ..."

"I need you to put it No. 1 on your list, to test it, and if it is the carcinogen that many scientists have said it is, it needs to be banned."

"We have a horrible problem in New York State with Superfund sites and with groundwater that is polluted."