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Sherwood Boehlert

"We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future."

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"We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future."

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Donna Grant

"An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources."

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Donna Grant

"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."

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Donna Grant

"Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean."

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Donna Grant

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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Donna Grant

"The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway."

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Donna Grant

"Environmental radiation research is the rent I pay for living on this planet."

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Donna Grant

"The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index."

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Donna Grant

"Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations."

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Donna Grant

"I could do a lot of stuff's but the problem is not here it's the place where I am, the crowd which has surrounded and many other factors."

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Donna Grant

"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."

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Sherwood Boehlert
"The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage."

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Sherwood Boehlert
"I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil."

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Sherwood Boehlert
"Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome."

Environment

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Sherwood Boehlert
"Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation."

Environment

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Sherwood Boehlert
"Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue."

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Sherwood Boehlert
"The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job."

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Sherwood Boehlert
"About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks."

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Sherwood Boehlert
"So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it."

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Sherwood Boehlert
"And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings."

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Sherwood Boehlert
"But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy."

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