Jim Inhofe

She is the CEO of a far-left environmental organization and was a staunch supporter of the Clean Water Restoration Act.

I would like to make an observation that the first hydraulic frack job was done 60 years ago in my State of Oklahoma and there has never been a documented case of ground contamination.

But revolving funds is what I was referring to.

Thank you, Madam Chairman, for taking the time today to continue our discussions about Federal drinking water programs.

Unbiased, high-quality, scientific analyses are important foundations for making drinking water decisions.

I think everyone in this room agrees that providing safe, clean, affordable drinking water is essential and should be a national priority.

If the IRIS review for a chemical that we have great history on is so fundamentally flawed, it is hard to imagine how we will end up with good science on chemicals of emerging concern.

I know that everyone in this room agrees that providing clean, safe, affordable drinking water is essential, and should be a national priority.

These problems continue to persist in the face of the NAS and Congress repeatedly imploring EPA to correct these issues.

Unfortunately, the system that EPA uses to determine health risks, the IRIS system, has decades-long issues in crafting risk assessments.

I just found this to be kind of mind-boggling that would take place.

I think Oklahoma certainly has great problems in our small communities.

I think it is significant to bring up this point.

Just one comment on the subject at hand, and then I want to talk about something completely different that is very significant happening today. I listened to the Senator from New Jersey down here. He kept talking about only in Washington…

Messy court rulings and bureaucratic overreach have produced regulations that will harm the economy.

It is increasingly clear that the Clean Air Act needs to be updated and the rules for electric utilities are the place to start.

These rules will likely result in electricity costs increasing by as much as 23 percent and 1.4 million lost jobs by 2020.

But ultimately, it's working families that pay the price.

All of this might be great for environmental lawyers who, incidentally, make money by exploiting the citizen suit provisions of the nation's environmental laws.

The best way to accelerate environmental progress and institute certainty for businesses is through multi-pollutant legislation.

This Clean Air InterState Rule is significantly more vulnerable to court challenges than legislation and will undoubtedly be held up.

Thank you, Senator Cardin, for conducting today's subcommittee hearing to discuss the difficult and extensive process of determining natural resource damages stemming from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Florida can have its State control back only if it does what EPA thinks is good enough.

EPA's own nutrient framework memo is inconsistent.

I am privileged to support this legislation along with my colleagues Senator Blumenthal and Representative Murphy.