California Quote by Kevin de Leon

I'm not shy about stating my opinion on political issues, so I can state my opinion, which is, on this one, Premier Notley's right.…

— Naheed Nenshi

The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive,…

— Phil Gramm

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

— David Suzuki

We need to put a price on carbon, and that's what cap-and-trade does and that's also what a CO2 tax does. As long as…

— Al Gore

California is a national leader in the fight against climate change and eliminating toxic pollution from our transportation sector because we have seen how…

— Alex Padilla

As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.

— Jimmy Gomez

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

— James Hansen

But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make…

— Barack Obama

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it…

— Fred Upton

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

If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes the economic…

— Vinod Khosla

I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way…

— Jim Sensenbrenner