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Thomas Carper: i hope, this week. others in the mean time have begun filling the void. we have another chart here. this is chart oisf our country. a lot of green. light green, dark green, and blue. the light green

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Thomas Carper: areas are the areas where the states are actually developing their own climate action plants. they're -- they've been waiting for us. they've given up on us. they decided to take the bull by the horn.

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Thomas Carper: been waiting for us much they're tired of waiting for us. and i don't blame them. one of those states is delaware. they have a plant in my state and a bunch of other states will soon have plants to

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Thomas Carper: global science company headquartered in my home state of delaware have taken steps to reduce carbon emissions. the dupont c.e.o. said -- quote ai -- "as a company dupont believes that action is warranted.

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Thomas Carper: american businesses, dupont's actions have had major positive impacts on its bottom line. in the mid 1990's as part of a climate change initiative, dupont began to maximize energy efficiency that. initiative

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Thomas Carper: billion. billion with a b. $3 billion. but a patchwork of state initiatives combined with good corporate stewardship however welcomed is not enough. we must have a comprehensive national approach to

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Thomas Carper: technology and know how to believe we can provide that leadership without endangering our economic growth. in fact, if we're smart about it, we'll end up strengthening our nation's economy. key the

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Thomas Carper: edison loved to say about opportunity, a lotit of people miss out on opportunity. opportunity comes along wearing overalls and is disguised and looks a lot like work. twheas said. you know, some

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Thomas Carper: jobs and product slow floa from that including technologies and jobs and products that will flow from dealing with climate change.~ that's why i support the approach of the lieberman-warner climate

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Thomas Carper: to see improvements over the bill. i applaud the chair woman's efforts in the in the recycling and cost containment efforts. a lot of times people say to me what can i do as an individual to help on

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Thomas Carper: of materials, a recycling rate of about a third. we recycle about a third of that stuff. but we offset -- let me back up. let me say that again. in 2006, the united states recycled about 80 million

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Thomas Carper: by recycling of some 39 million cars each year because we recycle. however, we only recycle about a third of what we could. each year americans discard enough aluminum to rebuild our entire domestic

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Thomas Carper: to states, must be used for improving recycling infrastructure, to heltrp states recycle, states and local communities to recycle more. i want to thank the chairwoman for working with me on this

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Thomas Carper: in the early years to help contain high prices and the allowances returned to customers to keep energy prices down. i believe that these provisions are moving us in the right direction to address

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Thomas Carper: in the areas the output allocation and in transit, encouraging people to get out of their cars, trucks and vans and take a bus, take a train to get where they need to go. let me start out by addressing

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Thomas Carper: addresses these other three pollutants, sulfur dioxide and mercury. sphaoeuf colleagues know because i've driven you crazy over the past five years on this, but 12 of my colleagues and i introduced

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Thomas Carper: problems such as ozone, acid rain, mercury contamination and of course global warming. this multipollutant approach fits perfectly within the framework of this comprehensive global warming bill.

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Thomas Carper: and mercury ---- threaten our environment too. my state of delaware along with maryland, virginia, pennsylvania and new jersey, we're at the end of america's tail pipe. and we continue to breathe dirty

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Thomas Carper: exposed to unhealthy levels of ozone. we've got another chart here. not only do we have the problems with breathing bad air and that harming their lungs and their respiratory system, but for young

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Thomas Carper: of mercury exposure. as a result they'll have brain damage. they could have brain damage. a mber of them will have investmental delays. some will have mental retardation. some of them will have blindness.

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Thomas Carper: that i'm speaking here today will die because of exposure to sulfur dioxide emissions from power plants. i don't know how many paoeupl are going to die from climate change, global warming, from co2 emissions

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Thomas Carper: plants are the single largest pollution causing these health problems. if we don't act to the tighten emissions of these pollutants, too many communities will continue to live with air unhealthy to breathe

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Thomas Carper: dioxide, sulfur dioxide, my troe general dioxide and mercury can help drive technology towards a comprehensive military tkpwaeugs rather than a piecemeal approach. that is why i'm aoeupbt duesing

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Thomas Carper: an economy-wide solution to global warming, we can't lose sight of the simultaneous need to enact stricter caps on mercury, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur s dioxide from power plants. next let me turn

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Thomas Carper: for zero and low carbon technology as well as funding to encourage the commercialization of carbon capture and sequestration for coal-fired generation of electricity. half of our electricity comes from coal-fired

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Thomas Carper: substitute can do better to support clean and efficient power generation. i'm concerned this legislation still provides too many subsidies to dirty, less efficient power generation at the expense of new

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Thomas Carper: bill still continues on the saeurpl old paradigm of rewarding -- same old paradigm by rewarding distributors by allowances to emit co2 in this bill are allocated based on fuel being used rather than

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Thomas Carper: and clean within a reasonable period of time. that's why i'm planning on offering an amendment to change the distribution of allowances in the fossil fuel power sector from an input allocation to an output

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Thomas Carper: createat more electricity by using less energy? that's what we should be doing. and unfortunately, what we do in this bill is werovide more allocations to emit co2 to power plants that use more energy

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Thomas Carper: in addition to providing allowances to efficient fossil fuel facilities, my amendment, our amendment would also provide allowances for new entrants generating electricity from nuclear and from other renewable

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Thomas Carper: must be a prominent part of any global warming solution. the resurgence of nuclear power in the united states gives us a unique opportunity to rebuild a carbon-free energy industry and create -- and in doing

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Thomas Carper: especially workforce, facilities and capacity to participate and ultimately lead the world in quality nuclear manufacturing.ac that's why i've joined senator warner, senator lieberman in an amendment

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Thomas Carper: funds transportation alternatives. i talked earlier about the importance of getting us out of our kargs, trucks and vans and getting us to take alternative modes of transportation to create less pollution.

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Thomas Carper: year -- senator feinstein and others -- to increase auto fuel economy from an average of 25 miles per gallon to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. the bill before us today includes a low carbon fuel standard

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Thomas Carper: starting in -- van vleet starting in 2005. by 2020 here is where we end up with co2 emissions from cars, trubz and vans. great progress. unfortunately, if we keep driving more every year, the great reduction

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Thomas Carper: areas without transit literally can double a family's greenhouse gas emissions. the negative consequences go beyond impacting our environment. with gas approaching $4 a gallon -- -- in fact some

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Thomas Carper: was very active on this front -- to use some of the proceeds to provide people with an alternative to driving, additional alternatives for people to drive. this provision in the bill would provide transit

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Thomas Carper: a greater say in how they can spend their transit dollars. transit is needed across our nation. however, many communities would benefit from improved bike and pedestrian infrastructure, be they sidewalks,

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Thomas Carper: it to local communitiales to determ ine which strategy workstr best for them. and, therefore, allow all communities to make steps -- to take steps to addresshis portion of transportation pollution.

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Thomas Carper: who serves on all three transportation-related committees, i look forward to attempting to bring those three committees together mmto create aat comprehensive approach to reducing carbon emissions from

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Thomas Carper: i appreciate the significant progress that's been made already to improve this legislation. i applaud the efforts of my colleagues, senators boxer, lieberman and warner, three of the finest people

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Thomas Carper: show vision to develop a business plan for operating in a carbon-constrained economy. we've seen states like california and delaware and a bunch of others take action to reduce our carbon emissions. what we haven't

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Thomas Carper: john kennedy once said "there are risks and costs to a program of action. but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." i recognize despite the hard work of our

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Thomas Carper: is why i'm committed to joining senators boxer and lieberman in bringing together all involved interests and parties to forge a path toward a solution tha s that can pass the congress early in

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Thomas Carper: has come for us to fulfill that responsibility with respect to tkpwhrorpblg. let me close with this, mr. president.. ~ is this a political exercise. they're going to offer amendments that try to imbears ea one side

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would be unfortunate. the american people know that we have a problem. the problem is the planet ont which we live is gettinget warmer. if we don't do something about it, eventually we'll not be able

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Thomas Carper: is will provide us with much stronger, more positive leadership on this front. and it's incumbent on all of us, democrats and republicans, and that one independent, to figure out how we can work c with that

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Thomas Carper: warming poses to our planet. but to do so in a way that really seizes on what thomas edison said, some people do actually miss out on opportunity because it comes along wearing overalls an is disguise

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Thomas Carper: mr. president, good morning. mr. bond: let's. be clear as we begin this discussion and i, along with i think a vast majority of my colleagues, suppt cutting carbonn emissions. we want to cut down

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Thomas Carper: and all a of the things that drive our economy. at a time when american families are suffering record pain at the pump, hom e mortgage crisis, a soft economy, this is not the time to put the government

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Thomas Carper: this is what the junior senator from california has said lieberman-warner would raise -- warner would raise, $6,735 00, 000,000. as we saw and see again, too big to fit on any one board. but. all of the

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Thomas Carper: that has to be passed on. it will be passed on to families, workers, farmers, truckers in the form of higher energy bills and more pain at the pump. the bill sponsor -- they intend in the form of $800

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Thomas Carper: a $5 trillion loss. and even that under the complicated soviet-style scheme would be based on the wisdom of some small group of bureaucratic czars who would decide who gets the money.ey it seems that they

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Thomas Carper: the relief, and where any relief will go the problem with the $6.7 trillion in higher energy prices is that gas prices are already at record levels. gas prices topped $4 in many parts of the country

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Thomas Carper: heard firsthand from commuters, drivers, farmers, average citizens, businesses that are looking at a absolute catastrophe from these higher energy prices. they're all fed up with higher gas prices.

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Thomas Carper: states. i visited truck stops in jobli narched southwest missouri, and palmira, i heard from truckers about the record diesel prices, things are getting so bad, some are laying off drivers, some are

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Thomas Carper: going out of business. this is a real problem for our country. when truckers suffer, we all suffer. if they go out of business, we won't have the trucks to deliver the goods. transportation costs make

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Thomas Carper: up a part of the cost -- a significant part of the costs of almost every consumer item. when diesel prices go up, prices go up, families will pay, and in many areas we may not have the trucking infrastructure

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Thomas Carper: to deliver the goods we need. now, how muc h will lieberman-warner increase our as pain at the a pump? the environmental protection agency estimates that lieberman-warner will increase gas prices

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Thomas Carper: by 53 cents per gallon by 2030 and by $1.40 per gallon by 2050. now, the supporters of this bill try to tell us this is no big deal, it represents two cents a year a good statistician can try and make

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Thomas Carper: any number look not quite so bad. i can't speak for folks in other states, but i can tell you that the folks back home have a minimum amount of high enthusiasm for congress taking more action to raise

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Thomas Carper: prices. $1.40 is $1.40 and that increase in the price of gasoline is totally unacceptable particularly when it comes with the increase in prices in all other forms of energy. that is the path that the

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Thomas Carper: supporters of this legislation want us to try. now, some senators say that since gasoline prices have risen 82 cents since the beginning of the year,e it's ok that this bill will only raise prices another

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Thomas Carper: that if we don't change the path thath we're w onon now, the increase in prices will be even greater.er the bill sponsors even say that the demand for oil will go down under lieberman-warner. such a claim

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Thomas Carper: seems fan tass kal until -- fantastic until you discover the sources that he cites, the study -- looking at the copy of the study, it shows that it was guide bid the closehe involvem ent of the natural

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Thomas Carper: been ok with the peheople in my state. a further 53-cent increase by 2030 in gas prices is not ok. a further $1.40 increase in gas prices is not ok with the people in missouri. and can i tell you

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Thomas Carper: that if we don't change the path thath we're w onon now, the increase in prices will be even greater.er the bill sponsors even say that the demand for oil will go down under lieberman-warner. such a claim

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Thomas Carper: seems fan tass kal until -- fantastic until you discover the sources that he cites, the study -- looking at the copy of the study, it shows that it was guide bid the closehe involvem ent of the natural

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Thomas Carper: fleet efficiency for cars an light trucks will go up to 52 miles per hour. congress just finished raising cafe standards to 35 miles per hour. and now the nrdc say no problem, we'll move it up to

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Thomas Carper: 52 miles per hour. 52 miles per hour would mean that we would have a fleet of golf carts hauling our produce. i wonder how manyho golf cfarts it would take a farmer to deliver the hay to cattle in the

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Thomas Carper: solar. i'm all for clean wind and solar power. nobody our right mind believe b that weth will generate 50% of our power from wind and solar. that just isn't going to happen. you talk to the experts

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Thomas Carper: get 52 miles per p hour per gallon by moving to hybrid and plug-in vehicles. hi i'm a big fan of the potential of hybrid cars using advanced vehicle technology. these are the te hings that we ought

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to work for. overov the recess as part of the six-city tour in missouri, i mentioned earlier, i visited the ford assembly plant in kansas city, where they make the hybrid s.u.v. kansas city is a leader