Big Quote by Bill de Blasio

I remember when you couldnt even mention environmental issues without a snicker. But then in the 70s people got tired of seeing the Cuyahoga…

— Senator John Kerry

That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the media said…

— Haskell Wexler

Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily…

— Haskell Wexler

The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical…

— Josh Tickell

The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.

— Neil Cavuto

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.

— Philip Freneau

When they were putting oil rigs up and down the California coast, the whole issue of safe energy and the addiction to fossil fuels…

— Bonnie Raitt

Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.

— William Davis

The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years…

— Ted Nordhaus

“the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”

— Allen Ginsberg

To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity,

— Denis Hayes