Chairs Quote by Lawrence Anthony

Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez…

— Jeremy Clarkson

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

— Winona LaDuke

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

— Ralph Nader

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic…

— Mac Thornberry

It's vital that we be good stewards of our waterways - including protecting them from potentially devastating disasters that can't be undone.

— John E. James

We might work on ways to prevent plastic getting into the ocean in the first place.

— Boyan Slat

Focusing on solutions fuels progress.

— Michelle Gielan

Offshore drilling is not the solution to U.S. energy independence, and I am against opening parts of the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic oceans to…

— Deb Haaland

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not…

— Sherwood Boehlert

There are some who would like to see the oil rigs removed right down to the ground once their job is done, and there…

— Sylvia Earle

The most important thing we can do to save our oceans is to dramatically expand our efforts to establish new marine protected areas and…

— Serge Dedina

Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so…

— Virgil Goode