Samuel Wilson Quotes

When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources, public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children; I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.

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.

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

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

People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.

Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health.

Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders.

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

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

Every American deserves to breathe clean air.

L.a. 's air pollution has turned an environmental issue into everybody's issue.

Coal fired power plants emit particulates which cause respitory problems.

As a native Oklahoman, I'm dismayed by what fossil fuel pollution has done to the Sooner State.

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.

We actually all care about the environment, and most people believe in climate change and believe that mankind has something to do with that - how much is scientifically debatable, but there is some effect and we all have an interest in reducing carbon emissions, just having cleaner air, cleaner oceans. It's something we can get behind.

Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of such energy became apparent.

Through our CO2 emissions, we are making the earth a more fertile world.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

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.

The atmosphere does not fathom whether CO2 comes from U.S. oil or Chinese coal, nor do hurricanes lose force because the Heritage Foundation doesn't believe global warming is a problem. Living systems operate on laws over which we have no say.

Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

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

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.