Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
All renewables thus require a material throughput - from mining to processing to installing to disposing of the materials later as waste… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
I'll never understand why people somehow support pollution. It's completely irrational, and I don't get it. Somewhere along the line, they bought… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“We have to face the quantitative nature of the challenge,” he told me one day over lunch at the NYU faculty club.… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I've got an opinion on everything. Sure, you ought to do OCS, you ought to do renewables, you ought to do biofuels,… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create… — Jim Clyburn Copy Share Image
Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle… — Larry Bucshon Copy Share Image
Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I know that everybody who supported Bernie Sanders supported him because they believe that college debt is too high. They believe that… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
What the food industry should be talking about? Climate change. It should be talking about the industrialization of food. It should be… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country,… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I will fight special interests in Washington who exploit Native, rural, and low income communities for the purpose of fracking and drilling… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
“Environmentalists had enjoyed modest successes during the New Frontier-Great Society years: a Clean Air Act in 1963, a Wilderness Act in 1964,… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Climate change is not going away. It will only get more extreme and more dangerous with time. There is no hiding from… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
For decades, Big Oil ravaged our environment. They knew what they were peddling was lethal, but they didn't care. They used the… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Nuclear is the only energy source that has proven capable of fully replacing fossil fuels at low-cost in wealthy nations. While hydro-electric… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty,… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The solution to climate change is staring us in the face. It's energy policy. If we pursue a global clean-energy economy, we… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The Paris pact was correctly described by its opponents - greens and anti-greens alike - as toothless. But it was also the… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money,… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
Billions of dollars of grant money [over $50 billion] are flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon.… — James Spann Copy Share Image
With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
According to Bastardi, human-induced climate change "contradicts what we call the 1st law of thermodynamics. Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.… — Joe Bastardi Copy Share Image
Decarbonising our energy system is not some abstract regulatory requirement. It is an essential responsibility that we hold towards our children and… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
We must maintain strong building codes, strengthen flood insurance programs, and forcefully acknowledge the reality that rising sea temperatures caused by made-man… — Patrick Murphy Copy Share Image
I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Big government, global environmentalism cannot work unless everyone pitches in. With China, Russia, India and a number of other countries constantly cheating… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image