Famous Quotes & Sayings

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.

They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes such a toll they have to come out and rest for about an hour.

Richard Blumenthal

This ruling, if it stands, threatens to undermine and erode our power as states to hold accountable out-of-state polluters who foul our air, ... Carbon dioxide pollution endangers public health and the environment, just as other harmful emissions. These companies must be held accountable and forced to clean up.

Steve Burton

Weld County Road 13 is a part of everyday life in the Carbon Valley, no matter where you live. You use Road 13, and so do your customers.

Bjorn Lomborg

There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.

We communicated to the patients that the carbon monoxide they inhale from smoking cigarettes is the same poisonous gas that comes out of the tail pipe of their car.

When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.

David Hawkins

What this report shows is that with careful government regulation, companies can lower the pollution coming from power plants smokestacks - and we should be doing this with greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, too.

Our experience and relationships put us in a unique position to offer carbon management solutions designed for next generation businesses.

James Hansen

Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We must stop using it.

The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

All of forms of power generation create carbon. Some sort of carbon sequestration is the most likely intermediate-term carbon solution.

Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

David Lawrence

There's a lot of carbon stored in the soil. If the permafrost does thaw, as our model predicts, it could have a major influence on climate.

They plan to use state-of-the-art boiler technology and activated carbon injection. Cleaner plants will come on line in the future as the technology advances. But right now, what SME is planning is just about as good as it gets.

Even in your home, nobody dies of smoke inhalation, they die of carbon monoxide.

Big, strong, physical - a carbon copy of that we saw tonight. It'll be a very tough game for us.

As the plant grows it is drawing carbon dioxide out of the air,

Phil Gramm

The cap-and-trade plan is more market driven than anything else. If you want to discourage carbon use, you have to make it more expensive, but what is crucial is that this be a worldwide program that includes China and India.

We are trying to see if there are specific management techniques which will result in more carbon dioxide being stored in the forest floor, soil or in trees.

Continental Carbon has done everything it knows how to do technologically to make sure it is a good corporate citizen and is not polluting.

E. B. White

The results frankly were a shock. We can see human fingerprints all over atmospheric methane emissions for at least the last 2,000 years. Humans have been an integral part of Earth's carbon cycle for much longer than we thought.

James White

The results frankly were a shock, ... We can see human fingerprints all over atmospheric methane emissions for at least the last 2,000 years. Humans have been an integral part of Earth's carbon cycle for much longer than we thought.

There's no doubt it's a viable fuel for generation. But it's no better or worse than any other kind of gas, and there's a question mark over gas generally, while coal remains cheaper without a carbon tax.

Michael Pollan

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

Neil Gaiman

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

Tim Johnson

If you just deal with carbon dioxide, you've only dealt with a third of the problem.

Richard Flanagan

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

In terms of Kyoto it would be considered carbon neutral,

If you took solar energy and used that to produce hydrogen, it could take carbon out of the equation and could address, at least in part, the greenhouse gas emission problem.

Napoleon Hill

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

Freeman Dyson

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.