"Would you agree that the Reverend Jackson is doing the right thing to try to address energy injustice and economic injustice by getting a natural gas pipeline into that community?"
"I just think that we are, once again, going down the wrong track with this."
"I think it is time that people begin to speak up for energy and economic justice for all people, all low-income people, in particular."
"I'm not totally--for the record, I'm not against renewables. I just want to make the point from an engineering and technological perspective that it's not possible to provide all of our energy through..."
"We had a hearing--I think it was yesterday, it may have been the day before yesterday. Former Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz talked about the need to expedite our permitting for new construction."
"these brand new deal type things that really don't make a lot of sense in terms of, first of all, mitigating against the climate change that we know is going to occur without doing irreparable harm to..."
"So if you--if we really think that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, then why would we be moving towards weather--more weather-dependent energy sources and shutting down our most effi..."
"billions of dollars in the Federal programs, and yet, we are failing to address one of the biggest obstacles."
"it takes upwards of 7 to 8 years just to get the paperwork finished."
"shouldn't we be looking at ways to expedite our permiting process for infrastructure, maybe for building nuclear power plants that have no CO2 emissions?"
"If we are going to waste hundreds of billions of dollars, let's build it as efficiently as we can."
"I appreciate your candid and accurate response to that, Secretary Moniz."