Air Quote by Jay Inslee

Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop…

— James Hansen

We allow it to be dumped into this community asset, which is our one and only atmosphere. So that has to change, and there's…

— Jay Inslee

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

Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can…

— Barack Obama

Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is…

— Ron Paul

All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's really only…

— Jay Inslee

Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I…

— Van Jones

We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways…

— Ramez Naam

Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free

— Bill McKibben

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.

— Todd Young

Our leaders must get to grips with the huge risk that carbon dioxide emissions pose to the economy and the environment. As we know,…

— Jose Angel Gurria

If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have…

— Barack Obama