Air Quote by Christine Todd Whitman

The Clean Air Act gives states the right to impose limits on automobile emissions if the federal government isn't doing its job and protecting…

— Josh Shapiro

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous…

— Jim Webb

The legal fight over climate change begins in the United States with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. Under the Act, the E.P.A.…

— Charles C. Mann

The Trump Administration wants to unilaterally do away with the states' rights protections in the Clean Air Act. But the authority given to Pennsylvania…

— Josh Shapiro

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

In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to…

— Bob Frank

Ever since I've been in Congress, various groups on the business side, those entities that are creating jobs out there, have felt that the…

— Ed Whitfield

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…

— Ronald Reagan

Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president.

— Thomas Carper

You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if…

— William Ruckelshaus

In 1976 the Toxic Substances Control Act was passed, sending the EPA on a 30-year-plus odyssey chasing down the chemical industry in a fruitless…

— Suzy Shuster

The Clean Power Plan sets the first-ever national carbon pollution standards for the power sector, the single-biggest source of carbon emissions in the United…

— Brian Deese