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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Quote of the day	David Roberts	24 Oct 2007	Gristmill
On the heavily polluted town of Port Arthur, Tex.: "This city is not going to change. It is a refinery town tomorrow, next year, 100 years from now. It will always be a petrochemical area," says Ortiz. And if its residents are getting sick from the pollution? Well, says Ortiz: "We've all got to die of something."
Topics: dumbassery, Texas, toxics, quotables (all these topics)

Along the Mississippi: Quote of the day Granted, it's early yet	Katharine Wroth	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Just met with Laura Carstens, planning services manager for Dubuque. The money quote: 'For years, we turned our back on the river. Now we're making it our front door.'Later today, Sarah and I will get out on the river for the first time. The tourist riverboat stopped running this weekend because the weather turned, but yesterday one of our sources called a friend with a boat. The friend agreed to pick us up this morning and take us for a ride. And that right there te ...
Topics: Mississippi River, Iowa, placemaking, quotables (all these topics)

Quote of the day	David Roberts	22 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.' -- CNN and syndicated radio host Glenn Beck, on the wildfires that have raged across San Diego county, killing at least one person, injuring four firefighters, scorching 100,000 acres, and driving 250,000 people from their homes.
Topics: jackassery, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	16 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'I'm interested in good policy. Kyoto, I thought, was bad policy.'-- George W. Bush
Topics: climate, George Bush, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	10 Oct 2007	Gristmill
"People use fossil fuels because the good Lord put them on earth for us to use." -- Fred Palmer, senior VP of PR for coal giant Peabody Energy
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	04 Oct 2007	Gristmill
'At the risk of oversimplifying, our current energy policy in the United States involves shooting bearded people. It's not hard to imagine better ideas coming out of a reality TV show.'-- Scott Adams(thanks Kate!)
Topics: energy, quotables (all these topics)

Quote of the day Dingell gets off a zinger in a testy interview	David Roberts	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
"I run a legislative committee. Mr. Markey runs around the world watching glaciers melt." -- Rep. John Dingell Ouch. That comes from a characteristically testy interview Dingell did with Newsweek. It's worth reading the whole thing. I don't know what his intent is with this carbon tax bill, but I will say that the tenor of his message on global warming is politically disastrous. It is, paraphrasing, this: "Global warming is a serious problem. Solving ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, John Dingell, legislation, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	19 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Nate Tyler, organizer of Lights Out San Francisco: If we don't do something, by 2050, all the polar bears will be gone. That's where Santa Claus lives, man. That's a bummer.
Topics: climate, energy, quotables, San Francisco (all these topics)

Quote of the day White House advisor reveals Bush view of climate change policy	David Roberts	14 Sep 2007	Gristmill
White House science advisor, on the options available for addressing climate change: You only have two choices; you either have advanced technologies and get them into the marketplace, or you shut down your economies and put people out of work. Remind me again how long until these clowns are gone?
Topics: climate, jackassery, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	07 Sep 2007	Gristmill
From a Washington Post article about the transcendent potential of switchgrass: But such efforts [to persuade farmers to grow switchgrass] have hit a snag: Scientists haven't perfected the process that turns switchgrass into ethanol. So for today, the Crop That Could Change Virginia is just hay with better publicity.
Topics: biofuels, energy, ethanol, quotables (all these topics)

Notable quotable Al Gore on making room for outrage	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This quote from Al Gore is so apt I had to pass it along: I have a lot of friends who share the following problem with me: Our sense of outrage is so saturated that when a new outrage occurs, we have to download some existing outrage into an external hard drive in order to make room for a new outrage. (via ThinkProgress)
Topics: Al Gore, quotables (all these topics)

Quote of the day From that new French dude	David Roberts	07 May 2007	Gristmill
I want to send word to our American friends to tell them they can count on our friendship, which has been forged by the tragedies of history that we have confronted together. I want to tell them that France will always be at their side when they need her. But I also want to tell them that friendship is accepting that friends can think differently, and that a great nation like the United States should not be an obstacle to the fight against global warming, but on ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, France, international politics, politics, quotables (all these topics)

Quote of the day	Lisa Hymas	04 Sep 2005	Gristmill
FEMA chief Michael Brown has been widely excoriated for his pathetically and tragically inept response to Katrina. But lest you think he came to the job unequipped to lead the nation's emergency-response efforts, Kate Hale, former Miami-Dade emergency management chief, points out that his previous experience as a commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association has come in handy: 'He's done a hell of a job, because I'm not aware of any Arabian horses being kil ...
Topics: quotables (all these topics)

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