I'm pleased to join my colleagues today in reintroducing this bill in the 107th Congress. We're reintroducing because all the problems that prompted us to offer it in the last Congress continue to plague us. Acid rain continues to pour down on upstate New York, damaging lakes, trees, and soils. Pollutants from grandfathered power plants continue to blow east, provoking asthma attacks in our major cities.
Carbon dioxide continues to accumulate in the atmosphere threatening changes in the global climate.
And we haven't updated our clean air legislation in over a decade. Under this bill, we would take concrete steps to attack these problems. Fossil fuel pollutants would face serious controls - feasible controls based on good science and good economics, feasible controls that would genuinely improve our air quality, our nation's health and the globe's future. The good news is that, while these problems still plague us, we are facing them head on with this bill. And this bill has more momentum than ever before - even after the President's change of heart on CO2.