Quotes about polluting (16 Quotes)


    The district court unfortunately took an erroneously narrow view of its authority, and our hope is that the federal courts will hold these polluting plants accountable for the harm they do to our health and environment,


    Permit limits are designed to prevent wastewater discharges from polluting nearby water bodies and harming drinking water resources and habitat. We are confident the Tribal Authority will promptly make the needed corrections to bring these plants into Clean Water Act compliance.

    How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

    Growing things in a sustainable manner is important and growing things organically is important. I'd like children and students to know that it's important and why it is important. You don't want to eat poison. Frankly, the farming techniques in this country are very polluting and they end up in people's bodies. It's not a healthy situation. If you teach it to young children, it stays with them.


    This is nothing more than special-interest legislation for an irresponsible developer who was nailed by the 3rd Circuit Court for polluting the water and desecrating burials and avoiding our land-use law, and now the Legislature's going to bail him out at the expense of our agricultural land.

    While California does have some of the cleanest cars in the world, certainly some of the cleanest businesses in the world, we have the same old dirty ships that you'll find in any port in the world and to a large extent the same old dirty polluting locomotives that you'll find anywhere in the country.





    Our message to Iowa cattle producers has been clear. Producers were given a five-year enforcement moratorium to fully comply with the law, and we expect them to meet the commitments they made when they entered into the agreement. When the Iowa Plan ends, EPA will enforce the Clean Water Act against feedlots that are polluting the nation's waters.

    The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.

    We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

    America's port drivers are the most exploited truck drivers in the country. Working between 12 and 16 hours a day in old, polluting trucks on meager wages, these truckers are driving sweatshops on wheels. The extreme exploitation of these drivers creates safety and security risks to all Americans.

    In 22 states parents cant take kids fishing and eat the fish if theyre lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44 of all river bodies and streams its not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.



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