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If, collectively, the fossil fuel companies are overstating their assets by trillions of dollars, that’s a big deal. – Eric Schneiderman	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We cannot allow our drinking water to be poisoned so that a handful of fossil fuel companies can make even more in profits. – Bernie Sanders	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Some researchers believe that around 2050 the country might be 100 percent renewable. Fossil fuels are gradually reducing their share. – Luis Vargas	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Seven months after the successful climate summit in Paris the government is capitulating to the interests of the fossil fuel industry and missing the chance to give the economy a modernization impulse by presenting clear plans. – Christoph Bals	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The UK can't afford any further delays when it comes to replacing dirty power stations, investors need certainty and setting a decarbonisation target for the electricity sector would signal the government's commitment to phasing out fossil fuels. – Angus MacNeil	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Investors need certainty and setting a decarbonisation target for the electricity sector would signal the government's commitment to phasing out fossil fuels. – Angus MacNeil	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We feel hurt and disappointed that the Stanford administration has chosen to remain invested in fossil fuel companies, in climate injustice, and in the destruction of our future. – Sophie Harrison	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Among big Chinese companies, when it comes to developing clean and renewable energies, we are not lagging behind at all, we are hoping that in 20 or 30 years, we can bring down the costs of non-fossil fuel energies and at the same time raise the scale of construction, and during this process, allow fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels to be harmonised and provide mutual support. – Shenhua President Zhang Yuzhuo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If we succeed in this, this will be negative emissions because the mix of carbon in the waste is approximately 50 to 60 percent biological and 40 to 50 percent fossil, so the biological part of it will be carbon negative, or negative emissions. – Johnny Stuen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If you look at some of Obama’s speeches, like when he offered praise for the oil and gas industry in 2012 while speaking in Oklahoma, it is clear they are both on the same side, the administration has done an inadequate job in getting where we need to be [in protecting the environment] and contesting this case is just another example of how [Obama] is supporting the fossil fuel industry. – Phillip Gregory	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The administration has done an inadequate job in getting where we need to be [in protecting the environment] and contesting this case is just another example of how [Obama] is supporting the fossil fuel industry. – Phillip Gregory	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We have to bear in mind that increasingly renewable energy is cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable than fossil fuels. Transition to a clean energy economy will benefit the country and create jobs. We must remove barriers to the deployment of renewable energy. – Kenneth Berlin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Fossil flowers are rare under any circumstances, and those in amber provide the only evidence of (ancient) tropical flowers, since the rapid decay of such delicate objects under conditions of high heat and humidity prevents their preservation in sedimentary deposits. – George Poinar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Fuel oil consumption is expected to fall in Japan... as nuclear power plants are restarted, denting the country's demand for fossil fuels. – Banchero Costa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The suit is a reminder that we shouldn’t be signing new trade agreements like the Trans Pacific Partnership that allow corporations to sue governments that try and keep fossil fuels in the ground. – Jason Kowalski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
While there is much we can do, and are doing, at the municipal level, we need federal actions like The Clean Power Plan to help move us away from fossil fuel consumption related to energy generation. – Salt Lake City	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
On the one hand we have Fukushima etched in our memories, and on the other hand we are tackling fossil-fuel-driven climate change, this is incredibly complex and of no surprise that decisions have been avoided. – Gavin Newsom	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The path does not involve the end of fossil fuels tomorrow, what it involves is a longer-term movement toward clean energy. – Todd Stern	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
From now, on, the smart money will no longer go into fossil fuels, but into cleaner energy, smarter cities, and more sustainable land use. – Felipe Calderon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It will need the development of a capacity for disposing of CO2 on a reasonably large scale, either captured from the air or from emissions from fossil fuels that countries or companies simply cannot bring themselves to leave in the ground. – Myles Allen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Among Triassic geologic formations containing fossils, The Chaares Formation is The Chaares Formation. The Chaares Formation contains a variety of complete fossil specimens of early dinosauromorphs, which are essentially dinosaur aunts, uncles and cousins. – Randall Irmis	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We are underweight fossil fuels, we are underweight on companies with a high carbon footprint. – Saker Nusseibeh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is only fair and just that the companies that have extracted and profited the most from fossil fuels account for the resulting harm and take measures to prevent more harm, to protect the rights of people in the context of climate change, yes, it's going to be a difficult investigation, a very complicated investigation. But the petitioners believe it is not impossible. – Zelda Soriano	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Right now we have an incentive structure that is designed to slow it down( transition from fossil fuels), if countries decide to do a carbon tax or cap and trade, and it is real and not watered-down and weak, I think we can see a transition that is in the 15 to 20 years time frame as supposed to 40 to 50 years time frame. – Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

If, collectively, the fossil fuel companies are overstating their assets by trillions of dollars, that’s a big deal.

– Eric Schneiderman

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We cannot allow our drinking water to be poisoned so that a handful of fossil fuel companies can make even more in profits.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Some researchers believe that around 2050 the country might be 100 percent renewable. Fossil fuels are gradually reducing their share.

– Luis Vargas

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Seven months after the successful climate summit in Paris the government is capitulating to the interests of the fossil fuel industry and missing the chance to give the economy a modernization impulse by presenting clear plans.

– Christoph Bals

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The UK can't afford any further delays when it comes to replacing dirty power stations, investors need certainty and setting a decarbonisation target for the electricity sector would signal the government's commitment to phasing out fossil fuels.

– Angus MacNeil

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Investors need certainty and setting a decarbonisation target for the electricity sector would signal the government's commitment to phasing out fossil fuels.

– Angus MacNeil

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We feel hurt and disappointed that the Stanford administration has chosen to remain invested in fossil fuel companies, in climate injustice, and in the destruction of our future.

– Sophie Harrison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Among big Chinese companies, when it comes to developing clean and renewable energies, we are not lagging behind at all, we are hoping that in 20 or 30 years, we can bring down the costs of non-fossil fuel energies and at the same time raise the scale of construction, and during this process, allow fossil fuels and non-fossil fuels to be harmonised and provide mutual support.

– Shenhua President Zhang Yuzhuo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we succeed in this, this will be negative emissions because the mix of carbon in the waste is approximately 50 to 60 percent biological and 40 to 50 percent fossil, so the biological part of it will be carbon negative, or negative emissions.

– Johnny Stuen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you look at some of Obama’s speeches, like when he offered praise for the oil and gas industry in 2012 while speaking in Oklahoma, it is clear they are both on the same side, the administration has done an inadequate job in getting where we need to be [in protecting the environment] and contesting this case is just another example of how [Obama] is supporting the fossil fuel industry.

– Phillip Gregory

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The administration has done an inadequate job in getting where we need to be [in protecting the environment] and contesting this case is just another example of how [Obama] is supporting the fossil fuel industry.

– Phillip Gregory

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have to bear in mind that increasingly renewable energy is cheaper, cleaner, and more reliable than fossil fuels. Transition to a clean energy economy will benefit the country and create jobs. We must remove barriers to the deployment of renewable energy.

– Kenneth Berlin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fossil flowers are rare under any circumstances, and those in amber provide the only evidence of (ancient) tropical flowers, since the rapid decay of such delicate objects under conditions of high heat and humidity prevents their preservation in sedimentary deposits.

– George Poinar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Fuel oil consumption is expected to fall in Japan... as nuclear power plants are restarted, denting the country's demand for fossil fuels.

– Banchero Costa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The suit is a reminder that we shouldn’t be signing new trade agreements like the Trans Pacific Partnership that allow corporations to sue governments that try and keep fossil fuels in the ground.

– Jason Kowalski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While there is much we can do, and are doing, at the municipal level, we need federal actions like The Clean Power Plan to help move us away from fossil fuel consumption related to energy generation.

– Salt Lake City

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On the one hand we have Fukushima etched in our memories, and on the other hand we are tackling fossil-fuel-driven climate change, this is incredibly complex and of no surprise that decisions have been avoided.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The path does not involve the end of fossil fuels tomorrow, what it involves is a longer-term movement toward clean energy.

– Todd Stern

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From now, on, the smart money will no longer go into fossil fuels, but into cleaner energy, smarter cities, and more sustainable land use.

– Felipe Calderon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will need the development of a capacity for disposing of CO2 on a reasonably large scale, either captured from the air or from emissions from fossil fuels that countries or companies simply cannot bring themselves to leave in the ground.

– Myles Allen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Among Triassic geologic formations containing fossils, The Chaares Formation is The Chaares Formation. The Chaares Formation contains a variety of complete fossil specimens of early dinosauromorphs, which are essentially dinosaur aunts, uncles and cousins.

– Randall Irmis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are underweight fossil fuels, we are underweight on companies with a high carbon footprint.

– Saker Nusseibeh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is only fair and just that the companies that have extracted and profited the most from fossil fuels account for the resulting harm and take measures to prevent more harm, to protect the rights of people in the context of climate change, yes, it's going to be a difficult investigation, a very complicated investigation. But the petitioners believe it is not impossible.

– Zelda Soriano

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Right now we have an incentive structure that is designed to slow it down( transition from fossil fuels), if countries decide to do a carbon tax or cap and trade, and it is real and not watered-down and weak, I think we can see a transition that is in the 15 to 20 years time frame as supposed to 40 to 50 years time frame.

– Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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