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Quotes by Josh Fox

The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.

Every single dollar spent lobbying a legislator on behalf of oil and gas is a toxic dollar that undermines public health and safety laws that protect Americans. Thats contamination of the political system.

I love driving. I still drive a 1993 Toyota Camry. I do want to get an electric car, but its less of a carbon footprint if you keep your old, fuel-efficient car on the road than if you say build me a whole new car.

The Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety provisions of the Clean Water Acts, the Clean Air Act, the Superfund Law - the gas industry is exempt from all these basic environmental and worker protections. They dont have to disclose the chemicals they use. They dont have to play by the same rules as anybody else.

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.