Dave Hamilton Quotations

What's really reprehensible is that friends of the oil industry in Congress are using ... a disaster, which essentially pointed up our shortcomings in protecting public health and safety, to repeal environmental rules that are designed to protect public health and safety.

That will allow us to fingerprint the otters to determine the minimum amount of otter in a stretch. That will really help us refine our population model.

We're leaving a legacy of having to baby-sit this stuff.

We're at the point where we can't meet the demand of the industry.

We think there would be a lot of problems if we had an established population.

We all agree on one thing; there are too many otters in the Ozarks.

Attacking energy waste is the cheapest and cleanest thing we can do to address the energy crisis. We have no ethical problem with making dirty things cleaner, but by simply investing in energy efficiently we could create 1.4 million jobs by 2025 and reduce the overall electricity load by 10 percent.

There's some new money here, but it's not a huge amount. They've been robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Then it exploded. We saw reproductive rates that have never been documented before. High litter sizes and young otters reproducing that weren't supposed to be able to reproduce and that sort of thing.

The bodies aren't sitting there. You have to go find them.

In ways we've looked at pollution in the past, coal has cleaned up. But the bigger problem we face now is carbon dioxide, which clean coal plants still emit.

If it all leaks, then you're right back where you started, plus you've wasted all that money.

If IGCC is not built with carbon capture and storage, it may as well be the old dirty stuff. It will be a cumulative increase in our carbon emissions.

Along with making money, businesses have another job to do when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The current lack of oil refinery capacity is largely the result of a conscious decision by the oil industry in the 1990s to limit supply to increase profitability. In the 1990s, approximately 50 refineries were closed, and since 1995, over 20 refineries have been shut down.