- Nov 07, 2020
Environmental Protection Quotes
Lines on policy, agencies, and the balance behind protecting land.
These quotes discuss environmental protection through a policy lens: government departments implementing climate action plans, agencies enforcing standards against polluters, and the tension between environmental priorities and jobs or taxes. See Energy quotes for related policy themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire towns near their projects, and the state regulators are even worse.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
You begin to see that all of these things are connected: The kind of cuts that mean less environmental protection are also the kind of cuts that mean less musical education for the schools and that also mean more overcrowded schools.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be a mistake to believe that environmental protection and economic growth are mutually exclusive.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
As governor, I will work to ensure the Department of Environmental Protection issues the Climate Action Plan and will seek to implement the plan's recommendations.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least three studies, in the U.S., Canada and Sweden, have linked glyphosate exposure to the disease, and in 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer found glyphosate to be a 'probable' cause of cancer in humans. California's state environmental protection agency has also declared it a probable carcinogen.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our district is home to the Adirondacks, and we know firsthand that clean energy development and environmental protection are critical to our economy.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020