"That means, for example, protecting Missouri families and workers from climate change proposals that would raise energy costs by $6.7 trillion."
"I want to be sure to get that in the record here, so that we will be facing that perhaps in the future."
"A lot of environmental organizations, perhaps including the Southern Alliance, have called for coal combustion waste to be listed as hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, R..."
"What happened at Kingston was a tragedy, plain and simple."
"I hope that we would just concentrate on the two things that are important, that is taking care of the victims and trying to preclude something like this from happening again."
"We are going to work with TVA, we are going to make sure it lives up to this, low-cost power."
"I intend to ask Lisa Jackson, our EPA nominee, about her feelings on this matter."
"We look forward, frankly, to following the lead of Congress and the EPA at doing whatever is necessary to make sure something like this does not happen again."
"Coal is absolutely necessary to keep this machine called America running."
"The disaster in Tennessee proves the point that we cannot avoid the costs associated with managing coal ash."
"I want to make sure that these people are taken care of and that this spill is cleaned up."