Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment. – Gale Norton
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? – Gale Norton
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years. – Marsha Blackburn
Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water. – Will Steger
Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. – James Inhofe
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. – Frank Murkowski
I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry. – Frank Murkowski
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. – E. O. Wilson
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult. – Jacques Yves Cousteau
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. – Will Durant
More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance. – Simon Mainwaring
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. – Simon Mainwaring
Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. – Garrett Hardin
Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world. – Joan Jett
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. – Vivienne Westwood
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies. – David Attenborough
Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall. – David Suzuki
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. – Wangari Maathai
We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. – Jay Inslee
