Acceptance Quote by Denis Hayes

By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean, healthy environment.…

— Denis Hayes

“It is a mistake," he said, " to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will…

— Isaac Asimov

“...the unmistakable smell of poverty, a mixture of cigarette smoke, weed, stale sweat, and fried food.”

— Allison Leotta

For decades, Big Oil ravaged our environment. They knew what they were peddling was lethal, but they didn't care. They used the classical Big…

— Bill de Blasio

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

Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when.

— Augusten Burroughs

“the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”

— Allen Ginsberg

“I regard breathing industrial gas to be as harmful as heavy smoking.”

— Steven Magee

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

Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions.

— Bob Frank

“Whenever you think about smoking you must see it as a lifetime’s chain of filth, disease, fear, misery and slavery.”

— Allen Carr

The true cost of the pollution that is being dumped into the atmosphere and manifests itself in our sick children dealing with asthma or…

— Mark Ruffalo