Act Quote by Jim Webb

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

The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to…

— Christine Todd Whitman

“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 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

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

Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is…

— Ron Paul

Here's the problem - carbon dioxide doesn't contribute to smog and isn't a health threat. All of this is being done because some people…

— Kenneth P. Green

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

“Environmentalists had enjoyed modest successes during the New Frontier-Great Society years: a Clean Air Act in 1963, a Wilderness Act in 1964, a Clean…

— James T. Patterson

The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant…

— John Coleman

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

— Thomas Carper

Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years.…

— Gina McCarthy