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" All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world. "
Merce Cunningham
" Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked. "
Frances Beinecke
" Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. "
Ronald Reagan
" As is widely accepted, putting a price on carbon pollution is the lowest cost and most efficient way to tackle dangerous climate change. "
Wayne Swan
" Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. "
Michael E. Mann
" Cap and trade is an important tool in California's climate policy portfolio. It sends a price signal to industries to reduce their carbon pollution while generating billions of dollars in revenue for investments in clean transportation and direct pollution reduction. "
Kevin de Leon
" Carbon pollution contributes to climate change, which causes temperatures to rise. Hotter temperatures mean more smog in the air, and breathing smog can inflame deep lung tissue. Repeated inflammation over time can permanently scar lung tissue, even in low concentrations. "
Frances Beinecke
" Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation. "
Clay Shirky
" Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions. "
Frances Beinecke
" Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming. "
Jeff Merkley
" During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations. "
Bobbie Ann Mason
" Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. "
Barry Commoner
" Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
" I always saw pollution as theft, and I always thought, 'Why should somebody be able to pollute the air, which belongs to all of us, or destroy a river or a waterway, which is supposed to belong to the whole community?' "
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
" I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. "
Ted Danson
" I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me. "
Michael Moore
" I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution. "
Jack Herer
" If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb. "
Louise Slaughter
" If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them. "
Mark Z. Jacobson
" I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem. "
Ma Jun
" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "
Gore Vidal
" In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. "
Michael Pollan
" Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. "
Garrett Hardin
" In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism. "
Sheldon Lee Glashow
" I rant and rave about noise pollution. "
Robert Carlyle
" I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. "
Gale Norton
" I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent. "
Steve Buyer
" It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. "
Dan Quayle
" It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination. "
Charles Duhigg
" I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents. "
Jack W. Szostak
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