06/23/2010
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"Senator Carper and I have been trying to pass a law that regulates mercury from coal-fired power plants in a reasonable way since 2003."
"Congress doesn't matter to most of these environmental debates; it is all EPA and the courts."
"My general attitude toward environmental rules is we ought to come up with a good performance standard, and then we ought to give the people who are affected by it plenty of time to get there."
"If Congress in its wisdom had passed Senator Carper's and my bill in 2003 when we first introduced it, this would all have been done 4 or 5 years ago."