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This is a tough environment, and it's tough for everybody.

The regulations keep on coming. And we are trying to make decisions that we will be happy with for decades.

We have rules about the environment and rules about worker safety and rules about consumer protection.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

When you put in place regulations that are so burdensome, so tough, so much so that they cripple your economy, we then don't have the resources to invest in technologies that are going to make that difference, because it's just going to shut everything down. That's not going to help us as an economy.

There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.

It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.

We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

Practices were tough.

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.