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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes the economic picture for fossil technologies and for the renewable technologies. It makes the renewable technologies more attractive and the fossils less attractive.

Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

We don't need a War on Carbon. We need a new prosperity that can be shared by all while still respecting a multitude of real ecological limits - not just atmospheric gas concentrations, but topsoil depth, water supplies, toxic chemical concentrations, and the health of ecosystems, including the diversity of life they depend upon.