Activity Quote by Barry Commoner

Since the first Earth Day, the EPA has regulated lead out of paint, air, and gasoline. It started fuel-economy testing (and then caught those…

— Andrew R. Wheeler

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and…

— Barry Commoner

We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about the lead.…

— William McDonough

With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from…

— Denis Hayes

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

— Patti Smith

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

— Jerry Costello

We had lead emitted in gasoline and in paint, painting generations of housing for an entire century, practically, before it was regulated. That's what…

— Jill Stein

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

— Barry Commoner

The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives,…

— Russell Kirk

Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from…

— Bill McKibben

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

— Barry Commoner