I do care about the mercury contamination which this country will be experiencing because of the attempted sellout by this administration to special interests which will result in more mercury in the blood of young children in America.

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

We can't tell China what to do if we don't do it ourselves. You don't inspire someone to take an action by refusing to take it yourself. We are in a race to be the dominant clean-energy provider to the world. Maybe this goes without saying: We've got to get China into an international protocol and the magic words are "common responsibility with differentiated action."

We have had a loss in manufacturing base and a loss of some of our productive capability that can be filled with the green-collar jobs of tomorrow. But it will only happen if we recognize the scale and scope of both the challenge and the opportunity.