"this originally was called global warming and it has turned out to be global wearing because it is disrupting all kinds of patterns"
"climate change is not an abstraction to Governors."
"So the fact that we have been eclectic and nonjudgmental, looking at all spectrum of jobs has been very effective for us and I hope the Federal policy will follow."
"The policies that we have adopted in Washington State I really don't think there is an argument it has had any meaningful disruption to any communities or any utility or any ratepayer."
"We passed a renewable portfolio standard provision maybe a decade-plus ago. We had zero wind turbines or any significant wind turbines. We now have six."
"I think there are some of importance."
"We are ready to--we are in the gate, ready to go, if the Federal Government will just remove those requirements."
"It is a heartbreak to see some technologies that--in the lab were created in our labs be deployed in China and Germany because they have had policies to make them economically competitive in their gri..."
"We are the leader of the world. We are an indispensable nation because of the power of our economy and we need them to keep--you know, it is kind of interesting to me."
"You can't say you want the rest of the world to act and then turn around and say you are not part of the Paris Agreement."
"I really believe that we got to focus on preventing carbon emissions in the first place."
"The thought that our kids are having trouble breathing might be the biggest one."