Vicki Arroyo Quotations

Voluntary programs that are aimed at reducing emissions...are offset by the growth because there are no requirements overall.

This study underscores the need to take swift, meaningful actions at home and abroad to address climate change.

As of now, we don't even have required reporting in this country of greenhouse gas emissions. The program would work much in same way as cap-and-trade we have with the acid rain program that controls sulfur dioxide emissions in this country.

What we propose is changing that to a greenhouse gas focus program and having cars and light trucks together in that program, but announced in advance so that companies can reach (the targets) over time and benefit from a program, like the acid rain program to be able to get the most cost effective reductions.

We're going to need all forms of energy production, including more coal and nuclear. Despite the Bush administration's support for clean coal technologies, the US is not investing anywhere near what will be needed to make this work.

The report represents a pragmatic and meaningful action plan to reduce emissions.

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Improving energy efficiency is the easiest thing that we could do and companies tell us cost savings usually result from those improvements.

The picture they paint ? much higher sea levels with mind-boggling implications for entire communities, populations, and economies ? is sobering. It's hard to imagine how governments and individuals will cope with sea level rising at rates of up to a meter per century.