Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

Until the public demands otherwise, the policy makers will continue to serve their financiers.

What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.

The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

I was part of Environment Canada's work to stop acid rain, create national parks, clean up the Great Lakes, develop new environmental legislation and negotiate the treaty that saved the ozone layer.

As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks.

When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.