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Quotes About Environment

The president's come out with rules that say 'no new coal-fired power plants.'
~ Shelley Moore Capito
Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.
~ Van Jones
Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.
~ Narendra Modi
Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.
~ Van Jones
How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.
~ John Kremer
We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.
~ Jonathan Chait
I was the first Republican in the country to support the president's Clean Power Plan.
~ Kelly Ayotte
You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.
~ Mark Z. Jacobson
[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.
~ Michael Bennet
The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.
~ Naoto Kan
Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
~ Norman Macbeth
Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.
~ Ramez Naam
I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
~ Tarja Halonen
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.
~ Thomas Friedman
Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response
~ Tom Allen
The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.
~ Van Jones
The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.
~ Van Jones
Solar Power Seen Meeting 20% of Needs by 2000; Carter May Seek Outlay Boost
~ Walt Mossberg
We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.
~ Wes Jackson
We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging health and environmental problems.
~ Steven Magee
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.
~ Timothy Noah
We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.
~ Anthony of Padua
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
~ Margaret Mead