"Advocates for mass-transit and passenger-rail service scored two victories...adding $3 billion in mass-transit spending and beating back a proposal to cut Amtrak funding. 'This will go a long way to improve our rail systems and maintain the jobs needed to keep them running,' said Deron Lovaas [of NRDC]. 'Congress is clearly catching up with public support for more and cleaner transportation choices.'"
--From "House Bill Pleases Rail-Transport Advocates," Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2009

"'[President Obama] has been a consistent advocate of sustainable energy policies," said Ralph Cavanagh of [NRDC] in an e-mail message, 'and he has focused on making sure these resources are treated fairly in energy markets (many of which had been notorious for hostility to these relative newcomers).'"
--From "A New Energy Regulator Takes the Helm," New York Times, January 26, 2009

"The most common knock on efficiency is that it can't possibly reduce our consumption enough to reverse our energy growth or stop global warming....'The limits of efficiency have never been tested,' says NRDC's David Goldstein.'We've run out of political will long before we've run out of opportunity.'"
--From "Wasting Our Watts," Time, December 31, 2008