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Rep. Mike Pence protests climate research funding in stimulus bill
"What is $400 million for climate change research going to do to put people back to work in Indiana?"
-- Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), speaking on the floor of the House against the stimulus package that he and every other Republican voted against
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You can't violate the laws of physics
"The erroneous belief that stabilizing emissions would quickly stabilize the climate supports wait-and-see policies but violates basic laws of physics."
-- Dr. John Sterman, risk analyst at the Sloan School of Business, M.I.T.
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McCain's adviser on the censorship of climate information under Bush
"I don't think there's anything with the Bush administration's censoring of documents that has helped them make their case for their stance on climate change. It's a disgrace. Have the information out, have the debate, and win on the merits. Don't win on the editing process."
-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin, senior policy adviser to John McCain's failed presidential campaign, at a panel on "Repairing the Republican Brand"
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Jamming coal subsidies into every conceivable spending vehicle
"He wants it as big as possible. He's going to just keep working for more and more and more money for this."
-- Jamie Smith, communications director for Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who's busy trying to get even more "clean coal" subsidies into the stimulus bill
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LaHood on the auto industry and Obama's clean-car moves
"The car manufacturers knew this was coming. I don't think you're going to see them get a lot of heartburn over this."
-- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, on President Obama's announcement that his administration is moving toward stricter regulation of auto fuel economy
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If Michael Pollan ruled the world …
"If it had been President Pollan, I probably wouldn't be here right now."
-- USDA chief Tom Vilsack
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Better isn't enough
"President-elect Obama's goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 falls short of the response needed by world leaders to meet the challenge of reducing emissions to levels that will actually spare us the worst effects of climate change."
-- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Are you now or have you ever been a member of the environmental party?
"So she is pretty extremist in my eyes in terms of her liberal leanings. Where do you draw the line between an extreme liberal and a Socialist? You know, everyone has a different view of that."
-- Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), commenting to FOX News on the crypto-socialism of Obama's new energy adviser Carol Browner
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Killing people to save a little money: Not reasonable conduct
"TVA's failure to speedily install readily available pollution control technology is not, and has not been, reasonable conduct under the circumstances."
-- U.S. District Judge Lacy Thornburg, in a ruling instructing TVA to clean up air pollution from four coal plants close to North Carolina