The legal fight over climate change begins in the United…

From landmark investments in renewable energy to bold action to tackle the climate crisis, Virginia is at the forefront of innovative efforts to protect…

— Ralph Northam

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the…

— Barry Commoner

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we…

— Gina McCarthy

The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to…

— Christine Todd Whitman

You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if…

— William Ruckelshaus

Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.

— Barry Gardiner

We will need to reach out to all those actors - to governments, to civil societies, to businesses - and help in mobilizing them…

— Patricia Espinosa

Renewables are critical in our fight against climate change.

— Fatih Birol

It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse…

— Kavita Ramdas

The fight around climate change, which I've spent my life on, is somewhat more difficult than gay marriages because no one makes trillions of…

— Bill McKibben

We need to invest in healthcare, in education, in the sciences. And in so doing, we will tackle one of the most intractable problems…

— Naomi Klein

I think we can compete with high-wage countries, and I believe we should. New jobs and clean energy, not only to fight climate change,…

— Hillary Clinton

I think one of the ways that we can fight against climate change is keep showing what we're doing to the planet, and we've…

— Shannon Walker

Many of the most science-fictional tools to fight climate change are untested, are almost impossible to truly test at planetary scale - we only…

— Ramez Naam

Wind and solar power, energy efficient buildings, cars that go farther on a tank of gas, and other solutions can fight climate change. I…

— Frances Beinecke