Our words and our actions will set the tone.
Together we are, today, responsible for nearly half of all global climate greenhouse gas emissions.
I'm willing to bet any of my colleagues in the United States Senate that if we don't get our act together significantly ...
America is the world's largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases that cause climate change.
for the protection of individual rights and freedoms.
China recently passed us to become the world's No. 1 current emitter.
China needs to understand, point blank, that if America went to zero tomorrow, China has the ability to obliterate every...
Earlier this year, while America spent $80 billion in green stimulus measures, the largest such investment in our histor...
The United States should not wait for China and should act regardless of China's commitment at Copenhagen.
United States refusal to act will absolutely not persuade China to agree to international commitments.
President Obama began very early on, even before he took office, to talk about green energy and a clean energy future fo...
The United States absolutely should not adopt a posture of waiting for China before undertaking its own emissions reduct...
I believe that if you give those concepts of 'verifiable, measurable, reportable' the life that they can be given, we ar...
the United States must curb its emissions if the world is to avoid the worst effects of climate change.
Either we're going to create the necessary momentum right now... leading into Copenhagen to galvanize a legitimate globa...
America understands that we have an obligation to lead, as the historical largest emitter.
As someone who grew up in Section 8 housing, project-based Section 8 housing--I lived there for 15 years with my mom and...
I want to thank you for being generous and granting me more time.
