- Environmental Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental Quotes
On awareness, activism, and the politics neither can escape.
One quote points to women in Kenya walking for hours to find water and firewood as the first to feel environmental degradation, grounding the topic in daily life rather than policy debate. For related themes, see our Earth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.
- Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
As governor, I will work to ensure the Department of Environmental Protection issues the Climate Action Plan and will seek to implement the plan's recommendations.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The portfolio standard was enacted when I was secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. It created investment, generated jobs, and gave a boost to local economies, all when helping to protect the environment.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.
- Environmental Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They don't have to disclose the chemicals they use. They don't have to play by the same rules as anybody else.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
- Grounding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mother Nature is not sweet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020