Mike Lowry Quotes

I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy Earth in real time rather than renew, restore, and sustain it.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power was a logical way to do something to help the environment.

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.

To protect the natural environment is to protect the possibilities for youth.

Every American deserves to breathe clean air.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

We happen to believe that emissions going into the atmosphere are not good for us as humans or Mother Earth.

Britain was once notorious as the 'dirty man of Europe' with polluted air, raw sewage pumped into the sea and protected sites being lost at a terrifying rate. E.U. laws and the threat of fines changed much of that.

Our planet's greener future depends on nurturing our natural and abundant renewable resources.

We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.