Quotes About Environment

Not only will a carbon fee reduce carbon emissions, it will force big polluters to pay for the damage their pollution does to public health and the environment, generating billions in new revenue for the American people.

We are totally schizophrenic. We are trying to reduce emissions, and we subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels.

To reduce the risk of a global environmental catastrophe, and to avoid reversing the course of human progress, the world must urgently bend the curve of global emissions away from fossil fuels.

Let's make sure that when companies make investments to reduce emissions that they're rewarded for that and encouraged to do more.

We must act to reduce the increasingly dangerous and destructive levels of carbon pollution that account for practically all of global climate change.

What is the quickest way to reduce our dependence on oil? Embrace hybrid technology.

Our position is that we believe that Canada has to have a comprehensive plan to significantly reduce global emissions.

Nuclear power can continue to help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, but we must do everything we can to make it safer.

The most effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is to fly less often. If everyone took fewer flights, airline companies wouldn't burn as much jet fuel.

They call me garbage queen at home, because I'm extremely particular about reduce, reuse and recycle.

Journalists and activists alike have an obligation to describe environmental problems honestly and accurately, even if they fear doing so will reduce their news value or salience with the public.

We need to reduce carbon emissions, protect Maine's key industries and preserve our coastlines from flooding and rising sea levels.

If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.

Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.

We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that - how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It's something we can get behind.

It is impossible to talk about slowing climate change without talking about reducing CO2 emissions. Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity.

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

It's really important that we have an improvement curve on fuel mileage and CO2 reduction.

The growing evidence of climate change is forcing attention on carbon emissions and their reduction.

We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm.

America is a global leader on clean air progress and carbon dioxide reductions, and we are the envy of the world when it comes to clean water.

The difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives is that the Conservatives are being honest that what they're planning to do is not going to get us past 30 per cent greenhouse gas emissions reductions.