When You're Cornered, There Are Two Things

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.

It's Remarkable To Watch The President, With All The Weight Of His Ability To Command Rhetoric With The Bully Pulpit Behind Him, Make A Clear Speech About Climate Change And Why That's So Important For Us All To Focus On. And That Is A Rather Remarkable Thing To See. It's Enormously Powerful.

When You Frack A Well, You're Exploding Methane Up Into The Atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, By Supporting Natural Gas, And Also Talking About Climate Change Is Literally Burning His Own Inaugural Address. And He's Doing It With Natural Gas.

It Is An Incredibly Hopeful Experience Watching Communities Come Together And Actually Reassemble Democracy. The Democracy's Been Taken Away From Us. But They're Reinventing Democracy Out There In Rural Pennsylvania, In Philadelphia, In Pittsburgh.

The Aquifer [is] The Water Table People Need To Keep Secure. Nature Has This Incredible System Of Water Purification Under The Ground. Ground Water Is Much Better To Drink Than Surface Water Because It Filters Out The Bacteria That Can Cause All Sorts Of Problems.