Dan Becker
Dan Becker
The Sierra Club is an environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the Scottish-American preservationist John Muir, who became its first president...
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Nuclear power is a dangerous energy source that creates more problems than it solves. Switching from dirty coal plants to dangerous nuclear power is like giving up smoking cigarettes and taking up crack.
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Landlords need to be more accountable for the people in their buildings. It is not OK to have four or five or six or 10 people sleeping in an apartment designed for three, and it's not good for the community.
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It has been a failure because the big industrial polluters, led by the United States, have failed to clean up our act.
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It boils down to this: They get to make two more gas-guzzlers for every FFV they put out. There's no way Detroit would be producing these cars if they weren't allowed to weaken miles-per-gallon standards in return.
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We'll continue to have a major presence and impact here. These latest asset decisions are aimed at strengthening our ability to continue to succeed in the global market, which is critical to our future as a major employer here in Puget Sound.
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The president is the one who said we're addicted to oil. This is his most important tool to curb that addiction.
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We're still wading through the rule and determining what we will do.
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The question, I believe, is from where did they come? I have no reasonable assurance that they came from St. John's Church.
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He's been both a hope and a disappointment. He's a hope because he keeps saying the right things. He's a disappointment because he hasn't been able to deliver them yet.
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As soon as you implement a strong, fixed target for reducing oil use, stricter fuel standards will inevitably come into play. Incentives alone won't do the trick.
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We were looking around trying to find answers to this situation.
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There's lot of options out there for me.
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I've lost faith in the process. The inordinate number of mistakes that have occurred in this election should make everyone concerned.
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They've essentially abdicated responsibility for fuel economy to the automakers.