Richard Charter Quotes (5 Quotes)

The signal is nothing is sacred off of Florida, and a lot of this is secretarial discretion. Interior can do it themselves, and so there is growing concern that the next secretary will determine the fate of Florida's tourism economy.

You have a White House and committee chairmen in the House and Senate who think they are running out of time to get these coastal areas opened to drilling.

This is not the time to be grabbing the political football out of the wreckage of this hurricane. This is an opportunistic effort to resurrect the parts of the energy bill that were too controversial to be passed before.

This bill is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I have never seen a greater threat to the coast of California. Many coastal states see this as a direct threat to 25 years of bipartisan, bicoastal protection of their most important beaches and coastlands.

What the industry is proposing could not happen in the light of day.