Wouldn't it be advisable as a matter of public policy before implementation of the most expensive rule ever imposed on the electric utility sector, $9.5 billion a year, to know up front whether the rule is legal?

I would imagine that the intent of siting one of these lagoons is not to leach arsenic into drinking water.

I want to start with Ms. Bowman. I would like to thank ANGA for supporting S. 1210, which is my bill, the permitting reform bill, that I introduced with Senators Cassidy and Heitkamp last week.

the stalling out or the length of time of the permitting creating so much uncertainty at a time when we have a critical need for new and improved and expanded infrastructure.

It is about creating timelines. It is not about running roughshod over any kind of environmental review or anything. It is just trying to move the process along to keep it from stalling out.

One of the obstacles that I think all of us who live in rural States are combating every day is the lack of high-speed rural broadband access.

I think we should be looking at rural health as a way to expand the availability of residencies to fill this gap.

West Virginia has 20 critical access hospitals that each play a vital role in providing emergency healthcare services in their local communities.

Well, I, certainly, would be very supportive of any kind of way--this could help solve more than just one problem here, if we were able to expand that and use it wisely.

This rule will have a devastating impact on our State, other coal producing States, electricity rate payers across the country and the reliability of our grid.

This proposal is legally unsound, and comes with a $479 billion compliance cost, will result in double digit electricity price increases in 43 States and has negligible environmental benefits.