Caps Quote by Barack Obama

You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions and you have to be able to do it cheaply if…

— Ramez Naam

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.

— Van Jones

People are not running to build coal facilities because of the price of natural gas, but we do see them being constructed, and there…

— Gina McCarthy

“In Germany, a gas- or coal-fired power plant that might cost $1 billion to build, but that will no longer run at full capacity…

— Jeremy Rifkin

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and…

— Elon Musk

You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if…

— Ramez Naam

Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States…

— Ian Bremmer

Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have already put…

— Pat Toomey

Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.

— Piyush Goyal

If you're serious about climate targets, you don't build and expand the oil sands and move from coal-fired electricity to inefficient fracked gas.

— Elizabeth May

Imposing excessive new regulations, or closing coal-fired power plants, would produce few health or environmental benefits. But it would exact huge costs on society…

— Paul Driessen

There is no plan today to fully give up on coal. Experts point out that our supplies run for another 200 years, and it…

— Andrzej Duda