Over 1,000 scientists wrote and said the Coastal Plain is uniquely sensitive to disturbance, making it virtually impossible to mitigate the effects of oil development.

A far more rational approach to the economic and energy challenges we face in the United States is to invest in energy conservation measures and sufficiently fund programs to hasten the inevitable transition we need to make to renewable…

the four largest oil companies in the United States made over $500 billion in the last 5 years, but they laid off 10,000 people, which is unbelievable.

Just, you know, they laid off 10,000 Americans while they made $500 billion over the last 5 years, the these four oil companies, these biggest ones.

the legislation which Mr. Holt and I and the Democrats have introduced would raise $18 billion to--and it would be used to pave over--to pave the roads of our country.

When the price of silicon dropped dramatically, 90 percent, that hurt the technology of Solyndra.

the Republicans attack renewable energy because they claim it's too expensive, but Solyndra failed because solar is getting too cheap.

Who we should really be talking about are not the bureaucrats at DOE, but the bureaucrats in China, who have made a strategic decision to drive foreign competitors out of the solar market.

Today Americans are focused on the oversized influence of the oil companies and others through the Occupy Wall Street movement, yet Republicans are pushing their own pre-occupy movement in the hopes that Americans will be too preoccupied…

There's a global race to become the leading maker of solar technology, and we have some fierce competitors.

Solar has big coal and big nuclear and the established energy sector scared stiff, and they've enlisted the Republican party to do something about it.