Environment

“We’ve blocked any new federal leasing in California in court for eight years now, and we’ll fight this too.”

“It’s like saying, ‘We’re going to remove the radar guns and remove speedometers, but you still have to comply with the speed limit. That doesn’t make sense.”

While the full health impacts of the fire weren’t immediately known, a storm-driven chlorine gas release in a vulnerable community is the type of worst-case scenario that scientists and engineers like myself have warned the petrochemical industry about for decades.

"This program marks the largest single program for any utility in the nation, a major win for clean air and healthier communities."

“The report fails to address the vital need to end the extraction, processing, and burning of fossil fuels, and instead sees a future for fossil fuels tied to the false promise of carbon capture.”

“Big Oil has fallen. Our job is to make sure they don't take us down with them.”

"The future of our planet depends on it. It’s past time to end fossil fuel subsidies."

Hopefully, with this new research, policymakers can make moves to stop plastic pollution that is harming marine life, the environment, and ultimately us.

“If money is how government expresses sorrow for its crimes — this is a big apology.”

“It would be naive to believe there is plastic everywhere but just not in us.”