Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet.

The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.

If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural disaster, the bill is paid by the taxpayer, not the fossil fuel company.

Tragically, no industry has done more to block crucial action to address climate change than the oil industry.

Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution.

The oil companies, the big polluters, and the climate deniers are incredibly powerful. They will do everything they can to protect their profits.

The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is polluting our public discourse, and, of course, its carbon emissions are polluting our atmosphere and oceans - it's a triple whammy and a disgrace.

The conniving, rich oilmen that were so desperate to prevent and frustrate the Paris Agreement found cheerleaders in Mr. Trump and his party. They choose to protect their profits from a flailing fossil fuel industry over human lives and a clean, inclusive future for us all.

The fossil fuel industry is destroying our planet and everything that we love.

If anyone's going to bring about mass extinction, it'll be Donald Trump.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

The fossil fuel industry maintains a science denial operation and a political influence operation designed to do just that. What's good for their business is more important to them than what's good for America.

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

If we're serious about our kids having a livable world, building fossil fuel infrastructure in 2018 is a sign of deep negligence, which is the kindest thing I can say about it.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

[Israel] undermines the international community's reaction to global warming.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent - the largest such increase on record.