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Also, we need new resources …
"The time for implacable opposition, for going it alone, has passed. We need new approaches and greater adaptability if we are to achieve acceptance of fossil fuels as sustainable resources."
-- ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva [PDF]
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Michelle Obama hearts community gardens
"I'm a big believer in community gardens ... both because of their beauty and for providing access to fresh fruits and vegetables to so many communities across the nation and the world."
-- Michelle Obama, speaking at USDA headquarters
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Moving away from oil could affect investment in oil, warns oil
"While the push for alternatives is important, we must also be mindful that efforts to rapidly promote alternatives could have a chilling effect on investment in the oil sector."
-- Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi
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Canada loves ducks, fines oil company
"We are protective of our environment, of ducks, of conservation in this country. We have laws. We expect them to be abided by and there will be consequences for people who don't live up to the full extent of the Canadian conservation environmental laws."
-- Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice on the effort to fine Syncrude for tar-sands duck deaths
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Obama talks tough on the need for investment
“We can’t embrace the losing formula that says only tax cuts will work for every problem we face; that ignores critical challenges like our addiction to foreign oil, or the soaring cost of health care, or falling schools and crumbling bridges and roads and levees. I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an […]
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Children are externalities
"So many people are wondering why, when our lives are supposed to be getting better, there are more and more babies born with birth defects and couples who are infertile."
-- Chinese environmental activist Huo Daishan, on the alarming rise in birth defects in his country
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Lisa Jackson on why the recession is not a reason to scale back environmental plans
“On Monday [Jan. 26], in the middle of all that was going on with the economy … the president was forceful that EPA should do an event on climate change on my first day in office … We have an answer for people who want to scare us from backing off of strong environmental protections.” […]
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Barney Frank on why tax cuts can’t do it all
“I never saw a tax cut fix a bridge. I never saw a tax cut give us more public transportation. The fact is, we need a mix.” — Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chair of the House Financial Services Committee, refuting arguments from Republicans that the economic stimulus bill should be scrapped in favor of their […]
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John Podesta talks tough on Obama’s energy plan
“If people want to continue in practices that were more appropriate in the 1950s than today, then I think that they’re going to have to understand that Obama campaigned on a promise of energy transformation. And he intends to fulfill it.” — John Podesta, Obama’s transition chief and president of the Center for American Progress