About half of all potential future global warming emissions from United States fossil fuels lie in oil, gas and coal buried beneath our public lands, controlled by the federal government and owned by the American people - and not yet leased to private industry for fuel extraction.
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Related Oil and gas are limited resources, ... Wasteful use of these fuels and the burning of coal are the m... IAN LOWE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted ene... BILL MCKIBBEN The emissions that caused this past episode of global warming probably lasted 10,000 years. By burni... JAMES ZACHOS Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for th... BERNIE SANDERS This is not just good for our farmers, but for all of us hit by high fuel prices. Federal mandates a... RONNIE ANDERSON What we have is a supply chain that is global in nature ... and we have in this country many foreign... MICHAEL JACKSON Advances in science and current production methods are enhancing the output levels of our petroleum ... SHAWN BARTHOLOMAE You must remember to compare benefits versus costs. For the foreseeable future, the only affordable ... LARRY ELDER Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is i... JEFF GOODELL Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from diff... DAVID SUZUKI A lot of the national environmental groups have a huge blind spot on this. They think natural gas is... TOM MORRISSEY Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they... BERNIE SANDERS Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, includin... DAN LIPINSKI Since 1850, burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas has increased 100 times to produce en... JOHN OLVER EPA believes its cap-and-trade rule is the best approach to protect public health by reducing mercur... ERYN WITCHER EPA believes its cap-and-trade rule is the best approach to protect public health by reducing mercur... ERYN WITCHER No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to... DAVID PRATT Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it i... REX TILLERSON In every study we've done, fuel cells surface as the most promising long-term pathway for the indust... LARRY BURNS A 15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is significant and puts ethanol at the forefront in the ... BOB DINNEEN The United States must recognize that access to reliable and affordable energy is the basis for econ... JOHN S. WATSON Federal officials have now acknowledged that global warming is transforming the Arctic, and threaten... KASSIE SIEGEL We need to give our children a future less dependent on fossil fuel, ... According to the Energy Dep... MARIA CANTWELL I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions... PETER SINGER Instead of giving preference to oil imported from overseas, Washington should look to North American... JOHN BARRASSO ...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible bu... JOHN HARTE First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coa... MITT ROMNEY As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering ... MICHAEL MOORE The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mai... DAVID SUZUKI President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public la... CARL POPE Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile... LYDIA MILLET We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bi... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those si... GEORGE WILLIAM NORRIS When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by ... GWEN IFILL The EPA could act to open the transportation-fuel market to vigorous competition from natural gas as... ROBERT ZUBRIN This legislation would restore American confidence in our meat industry by setting a uniform nationa... DANIEL AKAKA The United States and Canada must immediately reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions to slow the dama... KASSIE SIEGEL We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, i... JOHN CRAWFORD The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment. BONO Global warming threatens our health, our environment, and our economic security through projected ch... CHRISTINE VANDERLAN We know the chief sources of the warming fossil fuels and, in the tropics, the burning of trees f... PETER GOLDMARK If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the... JENNIFER GRANHOLM Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Global warming is not only the No. 1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most impo... LEONARDO DICAPRIO For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Governme... TIM HOLDEN This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. JOHN WYCLIFFE We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventual... RAMEZ NAAM When Ronald Reagan was elected president for his first term in 1980, he received strong support from... STEVE HANKE Something's fishy when the Bush administration delays a report showing no improvement in fuel econom... DANIEL BECKER In American history, this is the most outrageous giveaway ever extended by the federal government to... BARMAK NASSIRIAN Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accoun... RON PAUL The demand for uranium is very strong, and countries are trying to diversify away from oil and coal ... DAVID THURTELL For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes ... MARY LANDRIEU The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by ... MILTON FRIEDMAN Coal is a relatively inexpensive form of energy compared to petroleum, and the United States has abu... BOB MCCORMICK The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by globa... GARY MILLER The effects of climate change are well-documented and clearly visible in Glacier National Park and y... ERICA THORSON Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the... BERNIE SANDERS This agreement is a voluntary commitment by our private sector to help the government create a syste... MARTHINUS VAN SCHALKWYK The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. DANIEL WEBSTER There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But ... NAOMI KLEIN We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment ca... GEORGE TAKEI Emissions from Australia and United States are spiraling out of control. We need rapid deployment of... ERWIN JACKSON Chief Justice Rehnquist restored sanity to our criminal justice system, respect for our nation's all... JOHN CORNYN If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner... JAMES LOVELOCK As energy prices have spiked and world demand increased, the United States' reliance on oil controll... DAN GAINOR The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth throu... PAUL JOHNSON We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warmi... THOMAS P.M. BARNETT Motor vehicles are New York's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. The vehicles that ... CHRISTINE VANDERLAN The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love. BILLY PARISH We are concerned with protecting the American public and our agricultural industry from potential di... JAMES TONG If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural dis... JAMES HANSEN the president’s major donors from the fossil fuel industry. HALEY BARBOUR A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, ... JOHN COLEMAN These new standards build on California's world leadership in clean air and clean energy solutions. ... DEVRA WANG Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothi... LUCY POWELL The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; a... THOMAS JEFFERSON The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the Ameri... ROBERT KENNEDY Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy ... MIKE POMPEO is being driven by the realities of federal funding and the political climate in the United States. GEORGE DALEY Today, we start looking for other options to help landowners in the oil and gas fields. The oil and ... DUKE COX The importance of energy to government is clear. Pressures of declining fossil fuel resources, geopo... PHILLIP PAULWELL First of all, the idea that natural gas is better than coal is a lie, especially when it comes to fr... JOSH FOX The fossil-fuel based, auto-centered economy of the United States threatens not only the world energ... LESTER BROWN The fossil-fuel based, auto-centered economy of the United States threatens not only the world ener... LESTER BROWN Many countries - as well as cities, states and provinces - are taking global warming seriously and a... DAVID SUZUKI Releasing an equivalent amount of oil from the reserve for a short period of time will help keep fue... JOE BARTON If we could cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent over the next 20 years we could perhaps preve... WILL STEGER The global warmers ... predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They d... KARY MULLIS Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The biggest single step that the president could take to cut our oil addiction, curb global warming ... DAN BECKER Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil co... THOMAS FRIEDMAN We often forget that Iran has a long tradition and history with the United States. Iranians have bee... ELAINE SCIOLINO In Montana, West Virginia, and the rest of the United States, coal is definitely the electricity sou... BEN LIEBERMAN The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me... PHILIP EMEAGWALI Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plan... EDWARD LOWE The conference will offer a forum for the Sudanese private and public sectors to showcase opportunit... MALEI NTHIWA The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and... JAMES BOVARD We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels, ... I am v... BERNIE SANDERS
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