The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth. — Robert Pollin Copy Share Image
Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal. — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of… — Hal Rogers Copy Share Image
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
There is basically no one not on the payroll of Exxon Mobil or coal companies who any longer contend that this is… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal. — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world,… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers… — John Major Copy Share Image
a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail.… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I'm happy to accept the pressures of relentless… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls,… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
The fact is that any carbon legislation is designed to make us not use coal. So if you're a state that has… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
Unlike the visible and heavily regulated airborne emissions from power plant smokestacks, coal ash is largely unseen unless there is a major… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Throughout my childhood, when I raised my blanket in the morning, I saw a black, sparkling powder float off it. My socks… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
The use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today. But such products can in time become just as important as… — Rudolf Diesel Copy Share Image
If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Auctioning of natural resources such as spectrum, coal, oilfields, and land for commercial exploitation can largely substitute for tax impositions. — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will… — Alison Lundergan Grimes Copy Share Image
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The coal industry has helped fuel this Nation for 150 years, and coal can be used to heat our homes, power our… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
When I go up there, I see coal lobbyists, oil lobbyists, natural gas lobbyists, nuclear power lobbyists, somehow they think that's where… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad. — Owen King Copy Share Image
the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Many coal-fired power plants are being decommissioned or switched over to natural gas, but that takes a long time. — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning. — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
