I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide is…being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans. — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
The Obama administration and its allies, such as the Sierra Club, tried to kill coal because of their obsession with global warming. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Obama-Clinton energy restrictions are a massive tax on the poor that disproportionately impacts communities of color. I will lift these restrictions,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change? — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around. — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Decarbonization has already begun, and the appeal of a fossil-fuel-free world is growing - not only because it would limit climate change,… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
While the climate crisis gathers front-page attention on a regular basis, people - even those who profess great environmental consciousness - continue… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The idea of sustainability can imply there is one perfect, unchanging future, if only we could work out how to get there.… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Climate change that is occurring right now is causing so much suffering all around the world. Whether it's adding 30 million people… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
“Ord ultimately concludes that human civilization has a good chance to survive even at double that temperature rise. "I looked at these… — Adam Becker Copy Share Image
Scientists had said, "If you keep burning coal and gas and oil, you will melt the Arctic." And then the Arctic melted… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To reduce the interpretation of the causality of all kinds of climate changes and of global warming to one variable, CO2, or… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side,… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
If we are to take the clean energy future of the United States seriously, we must consider a whole-of-government approach to implementing… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on… — Ed Royce Copy Share Image
Renewable energy is not more expensive than fossil fuel when you factor in life-cycle costs. — Piyush Goyal Copy Share Image
The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
For the U.S. to take a leap in expanding its footprint in renewable energy, we have to end our reliance on China's… — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
