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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
- Frances Beinecke
#Carbon
#Global Warming
#Pollution
#Tax
We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
- Frances Beinecke
#Energy
#Fire
#Future
#Power
#Smoke
At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.
- Frances Beinecke
#Along
#Career
#Drilling
#Offshore
#Start
Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.
- Frances Beinecke
#Company
#Earth
#Effort
#Safety
#Way
Los Angeles County is one of the most park-poor urban areas in the nation, and the San Gabriel Valley - stretching from Pasadena to Pomona - is especially starved for open space.
- Frances Beinecke
#Nation
#Open
#Space
#Stretching
#Valley
Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.
- Frances Beinecke
#Balance
#Energy
#Understanding
#Wind
Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
- Frances Beinecke
#Character
#Life
#People
#Time
#Welcome
Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
- Frances Beinecke
#Health
#Human
#Nervous
#System
#Will
When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
- Frances Beinecke
#Environmental
#Food
#Go
#Home
#Shopping
When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
- Frances Beinecke
#Environmental
#Government
#Opportunity
Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.
- Frances Beinecke
#Change
#Children
#Environmental
#Time
Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.
- Frances Beinecke
#Air
#Change
#Energy
#Environmental
#Time
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
- Frances Beinecke
#Change
#Environmental
#Long
#Political
Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.
- Frances Beinecke
#Business
#Climate
#Justice
#Life
#People
Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.
- Frances Beinecke
#Feed
#Fishing
#People
#Power
#Rising
Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
- Frances Beinecke
#Earth
#Energy
#More
#Oil
#Pollution
VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.
- Frances Beinecke
#Country
#Culture
#Freedom
#Road
#Youth
Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
- Frances Beinecke
#Extinction
#Future
#Must
#Story
#Success
Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
- Frances Beinecke
#Against
#Change
#Climate
#Plants
#Stand
In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
- Frances Beinecke
#Better
#Competition
#Me
#Power
#Wind
Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
- Frances Beinecke
#Brain
#Lead
#Oil
#Penny
#Protect
California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.
- Frances Beinecke
#Business
#Fishermen
#Possible
#Water
Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.
- Frances Beinecke
#Development
#Life
#Miles
#Oil
#Pollution
The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
- Frances Beinecke
#Care
#Change
#Health
#People
#Weather
Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.
- Frances Beinecke
#Die
#Men
#More
#Natural Disasters
#Show
#Women
Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
- Frances Beinecke
#Change
#Clean
#Climate
#Energy
#Wind
Pollution from human activities is changing the Earth's climate. We see the damage that a disrupted climate can do: on our coasts, our farms, forests, mountains, and cities. Those impacts will grow more severe unless we start reducing global warming pollution now.
- Frances Beinecke
#Earth
#Global Warming
#Grow
#See
#Start
I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
- Frances Beinecke
#Change
#Environmental
#Health
#Justice
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