Business Quote by Mark Schapiro

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

— Jerry Brown

Opponents have claimed that regulating carbon will hurt the economy and businesses. The economies of California and British Columbia prove otherwise.

— Ted Wheeler

“Biomass, which basically is a fancy-sounding name for wood, is one of the old, reliable renewables that can produce energy when it is needed.…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“an even more withering drought returned in 2010. Billions more trees perished, releasing their stored carbon. For the first time, the Amazon had become…

— Scott Wallace

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

— Donella Meadows

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

— Alana Beard

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

If you choose to make regulations about carbon dioxide, that's OK. You as a state can do that; you have a right to do…

— John Christy

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

— Clive Anderson

“A carbon tax forces you to take into account the climate disbenefits that your purchase is responsible for, so you can weigh these against…

— Bjorn Lomborg

“We’ve lost an estimated 50 to 80 percent carbon in our soils over the last 150 years.”

— Judith D. Schwartz

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant…

— John Coleman