Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

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

I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that's my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company.

My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.

I believe the state needs to control hydrocarbons.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

I think really what needs to happen is the people of the United States need to stand up and say, 'Oil is an energy model from the past. It doesn't work for the planet, it doesn't work for the people, it never has and it never will.'

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

The President [George W. Bush] is an oil man, indifferent to the environment.

The oil market is the biggest failure of the free market because it did not take into account the environmental damage.

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.

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

BP should be Banned Permanently because they are too failed to be big.

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

I certainly would like to see the war on coal come to an end.

Oil companies have played a role in suppressing the development of alternative fuels.

We have to have a planet to pass on to the next generation, and these issues of climate change and climate justice and the disproportionate burdens that communities of color actually bear from our damaging climate is a huge issue.

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.

On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.

When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.

Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.