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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

Topics: Bring Broader Dinner Environmental Environmental Problems Food Go Help Home More Our Plates Problems Shopping Solve Some Store Than Those Traces Use

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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

Topics: About Approve Cases Community Considered Dam Environmental Gives Government Heard Highway Impact Impacts Major Make Many Must Only Opportunity Otherwise Project Public Sure

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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

Topics: Allow Battles Change Conversation Destructive Dynamics Economic Emerge Enough Environmental Long Many New Political Project Social Won

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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

Topics: Change Climate Climate Change Economic Environmental Health Humanitarian Issue Justice Long Only Understood Well

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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

Topics: About Central Change Children Climate Climate Change Dangers Doing Enough Environmental Ill Obligation Our Our Time Protect Scourge Time Widening

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Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

~Frank Murkowski

Topics: America Environmental Global Increases Nations Our Out Production Pushing Risks Standards Without

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A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.

~Frank Tipler

Topics: Deals Environmental Essential Evolution Far Final Form Future Intelligent Life Limitations Machinery Machines More Our People Person Principle Regarding Reproduction Restricted Skin Than Understanding Which Whose Without

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Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

~Fred Upton

Topics: Air Arbitrary Based Both Catchy Come Environmental Groups Industry Instead Just Light Like Look Made Mandate Our Out Pick Science Sense Standard Up Work Worked

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Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

~Fred Upton

Topics: Any Countries Economy Emissions Environment Environmental Few Global Harming International Jobs Overseas Participation Require Shift Simply U.s. Economy Well Will Without

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I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.

~Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Topics: Acting Environmental Genetic Know Maybe

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