Who will you blame next? If we don't produce CO2, what will be your excuse for the next tornado, the next Hurricane Sandy?

I am just concerned about all the coal miners, and the people that work in these mines, or the people in the industry, how they are going to find jobs, if it is less and less, and you are saying it is viable.

But yet, with all these regulations you are putting at risk all the American workers in these powerhouses, and coal mines, and all across this country.

So my point here is, given that there is not unanimity--and I remember earlier last year when Lisa Jackson came before us, she said it is all been decided, that global warming is anthropogenic, global warming is manmade cause and it is CO2…

President Obama himself said he wants to 'bankrupt' coal companies and that 'electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket.'

I don't think that anyone is not aware of the fact that this administration has a strong bias against coal.

Clearly, there is a war on coal that is being waged by the administration.

This proposed rule would do exactly what the administration set out to do from the very start: prohibit the future use of coal in this country.

It is their responsibility and they are responsible for where we are today as it relates to coal.

They have a responsibility to consider the cost and the impact on the health care of the thousands of people who lose their jobs.

I find it curious in my reading that they blamed the temperature of the oceans, the instability of the oceans.

I get a kick out of you. You have been here several times before our committee.

I am curious about the follow-up, particularly there were several--well, take some of the more serious ones was the demonstration project for the abatement of nitrous oxide emissions.

I am just curious with all this money we are spending overseas, whether it is 30 million or $5 million, when the EPA itself recognizes that the biggest detriment to healthcare in America is indoor air quality.

But when we fund these other projects, if they just die on the vine, if they are just a one-shot deal, I am just curious, what American project that maybe could have put some people to work here and researchers, something in America that…

We seem to be so concerned with--and rightfully so--the health of our children and adults, and we put them in an indoor air quality that has--90 percent of your time you are spending indoors.

But now we are up to less than once a month they are coming in, and it is costing you $3,000-some for every one of those series of tests.

So here is a manufacturer that has never had a violation, but maybe once a quarter they have had someone come in and do some testing.

We have to be equally cognizant of the mining industry.

They don't answer to us in Congress. They only answer to the President.

You got a group of individuals here today that are focused on trying to push back on this war on coal to get some common sense.

We are going to try get that rule held back until there is technology commercially available.

Bill Johnson has worked very hard.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

With all due respect, I think the EPA and the DOE are the worst nightmare for the working men and women of America in the coalfields all across America.