It's no secret that the environmental movement is ultimately designed to create new inroads into increased government control. All of the shots taken at emissions, the dependence on fossil fuels, and noise pollution are designed to paint those things as symptoms of a problem, with the government able to step in as the solution.
Steven Crowder
GovernmentStepEnvironmentalControl
Environmental justice, for those of you who may not be familiar with the term, goes something like this: no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
Majora Carter
CommunityJusticeEnvironmentalYou
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
Jane D. Hull
GrowthHealthEnvironmentalControl
It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.
Tristram Stuart
GoodLiveHeartEnvironmentalWay
China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.
Ma Jun
WaterEnvironmentalWorldEnergyAir
While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
Jan Schakowsky
FoodSafetyEnvironmentalFinancial
Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.
Robert F. Engle
FutureMoneyEnvironmentalThinkTax
Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here.
EnvironmentalProblemsWayHappen
God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.
Hugh Ross
LifeBeautyGodPeopleEnvironmental
It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.
Robert Zubrin
EnvironmentalViewPoint Of ViewEPA
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski
LifeTimeAnimalEnvironmentalPlant
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
LoveTimeDayManEnvironmental
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
Mike Love
EnvironmentalThinkImportantAct
A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
Gary Miller
CompetitionEnvironmentalDifferences
We've sued out-of-state power plants that are polluting our air and led a coalition of attorneys general from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Massachusetts against efforts in the U.S. House of Representatives to remove critical environmental regulations that protect New York communities from toxic pollution.
Eric Schneiderman
PowerNew YorkEnvironmentalPlants
If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.
Judy Biggert
EnvironmentalEnergyRiskPursueGas
No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
Garrett Hardin
EnvironmentalWildernessMechanical
I don't know if acting is genetic. Maybe it's environmental.
Freddie Prinze, Jr.
EnvironmentalActingKnowGenetic
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.
Janine Benyus
BusinessDisciplineEnvironmentalNew
I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.
Ace Frehley
EnvironmentalProblemsThinkTalking
No clean energy development is complete without extensive environmental protections, and I've been proud to work in a bipartisan fashion with my colleagues in Congress to protect our most precious natural resources.
Elise Stefanik
WorkEnvironmentalFashionEnergy
We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
Dennis Weaver
SacrificeEnvironmentalStrong
There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
Edith Widder
EnvironmentalFoundationYouClean
Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.
David Filo
EnvironmentalImpactYouLookTrue
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