"Congress needs to ensure that the majority of new demand is met by sources other than natural gas. New nuclear generation, which has almost no carbon contribution and a tiny footprint on habitat, must be significantly increased. Because nuclear energy provides reliable baseload electricity supply, it directly reduces the need for natural gas-derived electricity and thereby may reduce the impact of extraction on habitat in the Rocky Mountain west."

        —The Boone and Crockett Club
             in the position paper Climate Change Policy
            August 2009

"I think it's asinine, what we've done over the past 30 years, where we've allowed France to fuel 80% of their economy on nuclear energy and we have fallen so far behind. Why is that?"

        —Christine Todd Whitman
            Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator
            Co-chair, Clean and Safe Energy Coalition
            On the Morning Joe program
            MSNBC
            May 28, 2009

"Given the scope of the climate problem and the emissions problem, we need to look at all the energy options we have, and nuclear is one of them."

        —Tony Kreindler
            Media Director, Environmental Defense Fund

“My belief, in retrospect, is that because we were so focused on the destructive aspect of nuclear technology and nuclear war, we made the mistake of lumping nuclear energy in with nuclear weapons, as if all things nuclear were evil. … I think that's as big a mistake as if you lumped nuclear medicine in with nuclear weapons.”

        —Patrick Moore
            Co-founder, Greenpeace
            Co-chair, Clean and Safe Energy Coalition
            As quoted in “A Renegade Against Greenpeace” regarding the
            green movement
            Newsweek
            April 12, 2008

“I think a lot of people are kind of stuck in the '70s. … I think people haven't caught up with the fact that climate change has changed the whole climate of the environmental debate on this planet. The one technology that is contributing most to reducing greenhouse gases in America today is nuclear energy, and we could do a tremendous amount to increase that.”

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