Jeff Goodell Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.”

“The oil industry fought hard to keep Keystone alive, making wildly exaggerated claims that the pipeline - the country's largest infrastructure project - would create tens of thousands of jobs and decrease America's reliance on oil from the Middle East.”

“Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.”

“But overall, Obama's record on the environment has been uninspired - and that's putting it kindly. He hasn't stopped coal companies from blowing up mountaintops and devastating large regions of Appalachia.”

“In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.”

“Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.”

“Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.”

“If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil.”

“In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.”

“Obama's record on climate issues is not all bad.”