"Our legislation provides an aggressive--but we think achievable--schedule for fossil fuel power plants to reduce harmful emissions."
"We need legislative certainty to protect public health because too many lives are at stake."
"Those are significant reductions that the EPA agrees will save more than 215,000 lives over a 15-year period."
"But it is possible today... to get a bunch of Federal subsidies and build a big wind park right outside the Cherokee National Forest."
"I have never suspected--I am not a scientist--that you could capture and sequester enough carbon from coal plants to make that all work."
"The State comes up pretty short."
"I am working hard for stronger national emission control standards, but if you come in with unrealistic local standards, the effect will be to send Volkswagen offshore with its suppliers, and that wil..."
"I want to make sure that in the review of this issue that you have the maximum amount of peer review and good science so that everyone has confidence in the conclusion."
"EPA will soon issue final regulations to tighten local ambient ozone standards nationwide."
"I do not want us to put a law--in the early estimates from EPA are that the cost might not be more than $2 or $3 a month more on the average electric bill by 2025."
"You know, if you are buying a product and it is labeled 'hazardous waste,' all of a sudden, your lawyers come in and say, wait a minute."