Clean air Quote by James T. Patterson

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

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

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

— Denis Hayes

“Congressman Upton insisted that he hadn’t changed his position on environmental issues. But Jeremy Symons, then a senior vice president of the nonpartisan National…

— Jane Mayer

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

What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the…

— Naomi Klein

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was…

— Brian Mulroney

Many people talk a lot about environmental preservation, but true greatness lies in putting these principles into practice and actually doing something about it.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored…

— Pete McCloskey

I think the environmental movement is the biggest people's movement in the world. Unfortunately, our governments and corporations haven't responded accordingly to protect our…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

We are committed to cleaning up the air and cleaning up the water. But we also are committed to a strong economy, and we…

— Richard M. Nixon

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