The best advice is to acknowledge the degree of difficulty some face with energy prices, but then to highlight the significant investments that are made in expanding refining capacity and in exploration and production.

The heavy lifting of emissions control is already ensured by tough new EPA rules on interstate emissions and mercury control,

Obviously, a hearing like this can be tricky, … But I think the best approach in this hearing, as in so many, is to just be upfront.

It is hard to see the justification for ratcheting the national PM standard lower at this point.

U.S. PIRG has again attempted to scare the public regarding particulate matter pollution.

For those lobbyists who immerse themselves in the substantive details, this won’t be a negative thing.

Today’s decision … is disappointing. What benefit comes from today’s decision? Certainly none for the environment.

Just because you are a big landowner doesn’t give you the right to dump your garbage on the little landowner.

there is an emerging consensus that is hostile to the simplistic annual standard as the basis for triggering New Source Review.

The decision is a step backward in the protection of air quality in the United States. What is it the environmental community thinks they’ve won? They’ve won the ability to place roadblocks in front of...

Frankly, we are quite surprised that the Senate may make time to even consider this petition, … We can hardly think of a worse time to be doing so.

This is a missed opportunity for reform that would have made it easier to improve power plant efficiency and workplace safety, and that’s bad news for consumers and the environment. We believe it is a...

[The EPA approach] combines significant reductions in emissions with protection for energy security and consumers, … But these senators now seek to disrupt the program.

In West Virginia we have to have timbering, but the timber companies need to do what they do in a responsible way. This is a case about being a good neighbor and using property responsibly.

Once again, environmentalist scare-mongering seeks to undermine common-sense reforms that shore up our energy infrastructure.