If you burn coal, you get an ash. The EPA since 2009 has been contemplating and developing and perfecting a piece of legislation, a new rule and reg. that would potentially classify flyash as a hazardous material.

We want to go from 15 milligrams per cubic meter down to 12.

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

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Having that science that you claim the EPA uses, I wish you would use it to fight the right area, where people truly do have issues.

But the mercury content in coal is .17 parts per million. There is more mercury in a can of tuna fish at .39 parts per million.

I can't comprehend that. I go back on that where they are saying that there is no layoff, there have been no layoffs in coal.

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.

We have to be equally cognizant of the mining industry.

Twenty-five years we are still talking about it. Is that what I am hearing from the panel?

I am just one of two engineers in Congress who practice engineering.