Scott Pruitt Quotes

Pollution doesn't respect state boundaries and it is difficult if not impossible to solve these problems on a state by state basis.

For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China's continued development.

Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

Americans are worried about pollution - oil trains running through their towns, fracking in their neighborhoods, coal dust in their air. They're worried about what the future will look like for their children if carbon pollution continues unchecked.

As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks.

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.

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

To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.

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 habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is nature's red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.

Every American deserves to breathe clean air.

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

My fear is that we are losing sight of how much we depend on the EPA to protect not just our environment but the people who live in it.

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.

My father gave me this poster from National Geographic back in the very early 70s, so I was a young teenager. It showed how man polluted his world. And the issues that they talked about, whether it was water pollution, air, or terrestrial... The issues that they talk about on this poster are still very much present today.

Our view has been that unless stringent environmental tests can be passed by would-be frackers, then no fracking should take place.

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

Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.

Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.