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.
Coal is absolutely necessary to keep this machine called America running.
A lot of environmental organizations, perhaps including the Southern Alliance, have called for coal combustion waste to be listed as hazardo...
I want to welcome Senators Udall and Merkley, both here.
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...
I want to be sure to get that in the record here, so that we will be facing that perhaps in the future.
We are going to work with TVA, we are going to make sure it lives up to this, low-cost power.
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 someth...
I intend to ask Lisa Jackson, our EPA nominee, about her feelings on this matter.
What happened at Kingston was a tragedy, plain and simple.