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Holding this fundraiser clearly violates the spirit of the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge that Biden signed, if Biden is serious about taking on the power of the fossil fuel lobby, why is he going to a fundraiser hosted by the co-founder of a natural gas company? – Varshini Prakash	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Fossil fuels ? We should eliminate fossil fuels ? Fossil fuelis what drove the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuel is what created assembly lines and a massive middle class andblue-collar workforce, and steel and aluminum, copper, nickel and electricity and lights at night and automobilesand trucks, refrigeration, heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer, and on and on and on. – Liberty Levin	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
If you are in the fossil fuel industry, you're going to be paying more in taxes, that's for sure. – Bernie Sanders	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
What we're seeing with this administration is a dogged approach to allow the biggest fossil fuel players an opportunity to put more money back in the pockets of their large shareholders and take that money out of the pockets of hardworking farmers right here in Iowa. – Cindy Axne	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Virtually every leading Democrat has vowed to eliminate fossil fuels. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
-- July 29 tweetFacts First: Baltimore does not have the worst economic numbers in the United States, though it does rank poorly by several measures.Baltimore had the fourth-worst unemployment rate of major cities in 2018, but its 5.7% rate was substantially better than that of last-place Detroit, which was at 9.0%. In 2017, the Baltimore metropolitan area (which includes more than the city of Baltimore, on which Trump was focusing his attacks) ranked 19th in the country in gross domestic product out of 383 areas studied. The city of Baltimore had a 22.4% poverty rate over the 2013-2017 period, well ahead of such cities as Detroit (37.9%), Bloomington, Indiana (37.5%), and Laredo, Texas (30.6%).Baltimore did have the highest homicide rate of any major city in 2017, so Trump was accurate in his claim about crime.Obama's recordObama and energy -- August 1 rally in CincinnatiFacts First: Obama did encourage the use of renewable energy sources rather than fossil fuels, but he didn't try to. – President Obama	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Ethanol is the cleanest renewable option we have today, and it's absolutely the wrong answer that we abandon renewable fuels and go back to burning 100 percent fossil fuels. – Patty Judge	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We can no longer afford to be burning fossil fuels or corn ethanol when there are far more environmentally transformational alternatives that address the climate crisis. – Scott Farber	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It will take decades for new forests to mature and achieve this potential, it is vitally important that we protect the forests that exist today, pursue other climate solutions and continue to phase out fossil fuels from our economies in order to avoid dangerous climate change. – Thomas Crowther	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Jobs created in renewable energy and energy efficiency can't be outsourced, it's always local, new York is mostly purchasing fossil fuel products out of state. – Daniela Lapidous	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
New York is mostly purchasing fossil fuel products out of state, so when we transition to a renewable economy we will be spending New York dollars in New York, creating good local jobs that pay well and are meant to be accessible to women, communities of color, low-income communities. – Daniela Lapidous	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The only reason why people think that cleaner living is more expensive is because they are forgetting about the hidden costs of our current reliance on fossil fuels, people are paying for the impacts of climate change through increased risks of coastal flooding, increased risk of land flooding, increased risk of droughts, increased risk of heatwaves. – Bob Ward	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The implications, I think, are broad in terms of redefining the scope of the government's analysis for really any fossil-fuel-related project on our public lands. – Kyle Tisdel	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have target for carbon neutrality by 2050 and we need a credible trajectory towards that, which includes a ban on the sale of vehicles that consume fossil fuels by 2040. – Transport Minister Elizabeth Borne	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The government claims that the UK is a world leader on tackling climate change, but behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries. – Mary Creagh	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
But behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries. – Mary Creagh	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
As our federal government continues to support the dying fossil fuel industry, deny climate change, and roll back environmental protections, New York is leading the nation with bold climate action to protect our planet and our communities. – Andrew Cuomo	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Only on Aldabra, which has the oldest palaeontological record of any oceanic island within the Indian Ocean region, is fossil evidence available that demonstrates the effects of changing sea levels on extinction and recolonization events, conditions were such on Aldabra, the most important being the absence of terrestrial predators and competing mammals, that a rail was able to evolve flightlessness independently on each occasion. – David Martill	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Wind has become a mainstream power source for the UK, providing up to 35 % of our electricity over the weekend. Renewables have been crucial to phasing out dirty coal, the coal phase out is just the beginning of a move away from fossil fuels to low carbon living, to avoid the enormous risks of climate disruption. Last week, the Committee on Climate Change said we can only achieve net-zero emissions with a massive increase in renewables. – Emma Pinchbeck	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Some people were not convinced by Yiqi. Soft tissue is not easily preserved in fossil record. – Min Wang	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have absolutely nothing in terms of bonobo fossils, there is one chimp fossil thats been unearthed thats maybe 400,000 years old, but thats basically it for African great apes. By analyzing living apes, we can get information on extinct ape populations that we cant get from ancient DNA, since there are almost no ancient ape fossils. – Martin Kuhlwilm	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
That has already happened, and I have thanked them for their generosity, but explained that because museums serve as a center of research, that any fossil that enters the museum for a long-term period should be owned by the museum, if were going to put it on display, it has to be a fossil that has been donated or otherwise permanently accessioned [added] into our collection. – Robert Boessenecker	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
As part of its ongoing campaign to hand over public lands to fossil fuel companies, this administration is rolling back sage grouse protections that many stakeholders created together through a long and deliberative process, it seems clear that Acting Secretary David Bernhardt's clients stand to gain more than anyone else from this revision. – Raul Grijalva	Found on CNN 5 years ago

Holding this fundraiser clearly violates the spirit of the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge that Biden signed, if Biden is serious about taking on the power of the fossil fuel lobby, why is he going to a fundraiser hosted by the co-founder of a natural gas company?

– Varshini Prakash

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Fossil fuels ? We should eliminate fossil fuels ? Fossil fuelis what drove the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuel is what created assembly lines and a massive middle class andblue-collar workforce, and steel and aluminum, copper, nickel and electricity and lights at night and automobilesand trucks, refrigeration, heat in the winter, air conditioning in the summer, and on and on and on.

– Liberty Levin

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If you are in the fossil fuel industry, you're going to be paying more in taxes, that's for sure.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What we're seeing with this administration is a dogged approach to allow the biggest fossil fuel players an opportunity to put more money back in the pockets of their large shareholders and take that money out of the pockets of hardworking farmers right here in Iowa.

– Cindy Axne

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Virtually every leading Democrat has vowed to eliminate fossil fuels.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

-- July 29 tweetFacts First: Baltimore does not have the worst economic numbers in the United States, though it does rank poorly by several measures.Baltimore had the fourth-worst unemployment rate of major cities in 2018, but its 5.7% rate was substantially better than that of last-place Detroit, which was at 9.0%. In 2017, the Baltimore metropolitan area (which includes more than the city of Baltimore, on which Trump was focusing his attacks) ranked 19th in the country in gross domestic product out of 383 areas studied. The city of Baltimore had a 22.4% poverty rate over the 2013-2017 period, well ahead of such cities as Detroit (37.9%), Bloomington, Indiana (37.5%), and Laredo, Texas (30.6%).Baltimore did have the highest homicide rate of any major city in 2017, so Trump was accurate in his claim about crime.Obama's recordObama and energy -- August 1 rally in CincinnatiFacts First: Obama did encourage the use of renewable energy sources rather than fossil fuels, but he didn't try to.

– President Obama

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Ethanol is the cleanest renewable option we have today, and it's absolutely the wrong answer that we abandon renewable fuels and go back to burning 100 percent fossil fuels.

– Patty Judge

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We can no longer afford to be burning fossil fuels or corn ethanol when there are far more environmentally transformational alternatives that address the climate crisis.

– Scott Farber

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It will take decades for new forests to mature and achieve this potential, it is vitally important that we protect the forests that exist today, pursue other climate solutions and continue to phase out fossil fuels from our economies in order to avoid dangerous climate change.

– Thomas Crowther

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Jobs created in renewable energy and energy efficiency can't be outsourced, it's always local, new York is mostly purchasing fossil fuel products out of state.

– Daniela Lapidous

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

New York is mostly purchasing fossil fuel products out of state, so when we transition to a renewable economy we will be spending New York dollars in New York, creating good local jobs that pay well and are meant to be accessible to women, communities of color, low-income communities.

– Daniela Lapidous

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The only reason why people think that cleaner living is more expensive is because they are forgetting about the hidden costs of our current reliance on fossil fuels, people are paying for the impacts of climate change through increased risks of coastal flooding, increased risk of land flooding, increased risk of droughts, increased risk of heatwaves.

– Bob Ward

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The implications, I think, are broad in terms of redefining the scope of the government's analysis for really any fossil-fuel-related project on our public lands.

– Kyle Tisdel

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have target for carbon neutrality by 2050 and we need a credible trajectory towards that, which includes a ban on the sale of vehicles that consume fossil fuels by 2040.

– Transport Minister Elizabeth Borne

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The government claims that the UK is a world leader on tackling climate change, but behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries.

– Mary Creagh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries.

– Mary Creagh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

As our federal government continues to support the dying fossil fuel industry, deny climate change, and roll back environmental protections, New York is leading the nation with bold climate action to protect our planet and our communities.

– Andrew Cuomo

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Only on Aldabra, which has the oldest palaeontological record of any oceanic island within the Indian Ocean region, is fossil evidence available that demonstrates the effects of changing sea levels on extinction and recolonization events, conditions were such on Aldabra, the most important being the absence of terrestrial predators and competing mammals, that a rail was able to evolve flightlessness independently on each occasion.

– David Martill

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Wind has become a mainstream power source for the UK, providing up to 35 % of our electricity over the weekend. Renewables have been crucial to phasing out dirty coal, the coal phase out is just the beginning of a move away from fossil fuels to low carbon living, to avoid the enormous risks of climate disruption. Last week, the Committee on Climate Change said we can only achieve net-zero emissions with a massive increase in renewables.

– Emma Pinchbeck

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Some people were not convinced by Yiqi. Soft tissue is not easily preserved in fossil record.

– Min Wang

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have absolutely nothing in terms of bonobo fossils, there is one chimp fossil thats been unearthed thats maybe 400,000 years old, but thats basically it for African great apes. By analyzing living apes, we can get information on extinct ape populations that we cant get from ancient DNA, since there are almost no ancient ape fossils.

– Martin Kuhlwilm

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

That has already happened, and I have thanked them for their generosity, but explained that because museums serve as a center of research, that any fossil that enters the museum for a long-term period should be owned by the museum, if were going to put it on display, it has to be a fossil that has been donated or otherwise permanently accessioned [added] into our collection.

– Robert Boessenecker

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

As part of its ongoing campaign to hand over public lands to fossil fuel companies, this administration is rolling back sage grouse protections that many stakeholders created together through a long and deliberative process, it seems clear that Acting Secretary David Bernhardt's clients stand to gain more than anyone else from this revision.

– Raul Grijalva

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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