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The coal industry is a huge industry when we're talking about polluting the environment, our air and our waterways.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.