Jeff Merkley actually said...

"Isn't the Clean Power Plan really based around that same core principle of States developing their own plan?"

"But the principle, you understand, of polluter pays, when you do some damage to your neighbor, shouldn't you bear some responsibility just as a basic fundamental principle?"

"Should the entities that are being damaged by carbon pollution be able to sue those who are generating the carbon proportional to their contribution?"

"So the marketplace for sulfur dioxide worked extraordinarily well, actually, lower costs and faster results than anyone anticipated."