Katie McGinty Quotes

I'm for the fracking. I think it's an opportunity for Ohio to really get a lot of jobs. But we have to do it right. We have to really take a deep breath, do it right, make sure the public is protected, make sure our land is protected.

The last thing we need to do when natural gas has been such a blessing is raise the severance tax.

Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

Government Enviornmental poisitions are tradeoffs. In that process, Democrats tend to worry more about the harm done to the enviornment and the health of the people; Republicans tend to worry more about harm to business and the economy.

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

I don't support a moratorium. I think the responsible production and use of the Marcellus Shale gas is actually part of the secret sauce as to how we will create jobs and how we will compete and win.

There are regulations all over the spectrum that have to be done to the existing situation right now. But the only policy that makes sense is a nationwide moratorium: no new fracking, no new fracked wells.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

They go together, a strong environment and a strong economy. In Florida the environment is the economy.

Why would we frack our countrysides and our watersheds when we know that energy efficiency would save more energy that natural gas can provide.

What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.

Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise their children - and you can rest assured that I will aggressively protect that right, not just on Earth Day, but every day.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

America's neighbors are not drilling for fun or for sport; they've chosen to proceed to create new jobs, generate new revenues, and increase the energy supply and prosperity of their citizens.

We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The problem is that they're seldom enforced.

There are serious worries about unconventional gas and oil, especially those concerning the environment.

Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.

Regulations have certainly gone too far in a number of areas, but it's important to remember that regulations are meant to be protective, and when it comes to the EPA, that means protecting human health and our world.

The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

Good governance takes behavior that is negative or not helpful to the greater good of society, whether it's polluting behaviour, plastics, or whatever, and taxes the behaviour.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.