Jim Inhofe

Our country is best served by a complete Commission with each member contributing their diverse views and acting as a collegial body.

What I find most disconcerting in the IG's report is an image of a Chairman who withholds information from his colleagues, acts unilaterally and rules by intimidation.

I am pleased that we will finally hear from all five commissioners on the agency's actions to ensure the safety of our nuclear plants based on lessons learned from the Fukushima accident.

I was concerned about this very situation in 2005, when he appeared before this Committee for the first time, that his prior work in opposition to Yucca Mountain would impair his ability to act fairly as a Commissioner.

His conduct has clearly damaged the credibility of the agency and warrants oversight hearings by this Committee.

Well, things are always of most concern when you hear the figures back home.

This brown stuff down here, it is dirt. Now, that round green thing, that is cotton. This up here is wind.

The effects of the economy, I spent a lot of time in Africa.

I will always remember the first thing I said after the 2010 elections, when it came in, I said, I just want you to know I am going to be just as nice to you 2 years from now as you are to me.

My problem with that is, that is one rule at a time. I am talking about the cumulative effect.

EPA's new regulations will force American energy companies to lay off over 250,000 workers.

I would just say this. When our friend, Senator Barrasso, talked about the red, white and blue and about all of the above, it is so frustrating when we sit here and we look at the CRA that came out less than a year ago and it documented…

With 9.1 percent unemployment, that is not what I call successful.

They contend that with everything they have and the technology available, they have reached that limit.

Do you expect the $2 trillion in benefits would result in higher economy growth as measured by GDP by 2020?

Industries that use electricity will face higher electricity prices as a result of the Toxic Rule, reduce output and demand less labor.

It will cost PSO, that is in Oklahoma, $800 million in the installation of scrubbers.

Administrator Jackson, you have admitted that regulating GHGs in the U.S. will have no impact on global GHG concentrations, yet your rules will come at an estimated cost of $300 to $400 billion annually.

Over the past 2 years, the Obama EPA has moved forward with an unprecedented number of rules that will have enormous consequences for families, businesses, and the nation's fiscal well-being.

When EPA reduces toxic air pollution, it helps families and children.

Unless we repeal the Clean Air Act or portions thereto, which there are some attempts to do, which have failed, Lisa Jackson has to do her job, or there will be lawsuits and she will have to defend why she is doing nothing.

I think a lot of people don't realize that what you said about the merits and successes of the Clean Air Act, I have said many times, and I agree.

All right. In the benefits and costs of the Clean Air Act from 1990 to 2020, that is a 30-year period, and it is your report, it makes some claims, the benefits of about $2 trillion a year and possibly as high as $5.5 trillion a year.

First of all, a lot of us contend that the EPA doesn't really need the Air Toxics rule to regulate utility emissions.

Just last week, in response to EPA's rules, American Electric Power (AEP) announced they would be forced to close nearly 6,000 Megawatts of low cost (coal) power generation.