Change Quote by Sylvia Earle

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was devastating to Louisiana's economy, environment, and way of life, but because of the resiliency of our people, we…

— John Bel Edwards

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil…

— Winona LaDuke

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

— Winona LaDuke

Most of the damage suffered by the ocean up until now has been caused by local insults - overfishing, pollution, and destruction of habitats.…

— Nancy Knowlton

This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country. It is certainly the biggest oil spill and we are…

— Carol Browner

Overfishing, global warming and pollution are destroying the ocean.

— Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

In Louisiana, we are very familiar with the potential risks associated with offshore drilling and we have not forgotten the lessons learned from the…

— John Bel Edwards

The BP oil spill nearly crippled our state and did damage to our coast and communities that will take years to rectify.

— John Bel Edwards

More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily, whether pollution,…

— Jon Bowermaster

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage…

— Lloyd Bridges

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon…

— Ted Danson

The uncontrolled and rapacious exploitation of oil has led to unintended consequences, and if we continue on a similar trajectory with water, the oil…

— Rohini Nilekani