I am asking you, begging you, to get underway and get this technology perfected.

coal is an essential part of America's energy future.

Coal is affordable, abundant, and reliable.

we must provide the legal and the regulatory framework to do so.

we support Senator Barraso's efforts to accomplish a similar purpose for federally owned pore space on federal land.

we understand it to be clarifying basic principles of common law as it pertains to Federal property, and we support that.

Coal creates American jobs.

The bills proposed by Senator Barrasso and Senator Casey make important contributions in this regard.

In Wyoming, over half of the land is owned by the Federal Government.

Is the process of permitting these projects on Federal land consistent not just across your department, but also with, say, other land management agencies?

I think there is a bright future for CCS, but if we don't--Dr. Markowsky, if we don't do it and do it quickly and do it right, it isn't going to happen.

Senator Barrasso's bill reduces one item of risk by explicitly reinforcing on public lands the common-law precedent that a storage space belongs to surface estate.

Finally, Alstom also sees Senate Bill 1856 sponsored by Senator Barrosso as addressing an important prerequisite for making CCS a commercial reality.

I have introduced S. 1856, the Federal pore space ownership legislation.

Do you think Title V of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act provides you the necessary authority to issue permits then for long-term commercial-scale carbon storage facilities?

As this goes forward, I don't know what kind of public participation you are expecting then in the permitting process, guidelines that the department would follow when it comes to the project's notification of adjacent property owners and…

Carbon capture and sequestration can help us do that.

America cannot afford to leave stranded its most abundant, commercially viable energy resource.

Coal is incredibly important to my State, Kentucky. The industry provides over 60,000 jobs, including about 15,000 coal miners.

I rise today to express our Nation's deepest thanks and gratitude to a special young man and his family. I was deeply saddened to receive word during the past recess that that on March 24, 2010, LCpl Jacob A. Ross of Gillette, WY, was…

it was fascinating to be here in the Senate Chamber this morning when first the Senator from Iowa made the statement, ``I'm all for paying for things.'' I am all for paying for things? But not for this. Not for that. Not for the next…

I think the problem is the government in Washington is spending money every day--the taxpayers' money, money we do not have, and that is what is going to beat us. It is money irresponsibly being spent by this government in this city, voted…

my amendment protects families and protects small businesses from dramatic increases in insurance premiums. My amendment directs the Department of Health and Human Services to certify that insurance premiums will not rise faster under the…

Well, I do appreciate that the Department is working on that so-called high priority performance goal, the pilot program on the Wind River Reservation.

I believe is a real problem in Indian Country: recruiting, training and retaining officers to serve on BIA and tribal police forces.