Epa Quotes

• The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

  Barry Commoner

  Air, Method, Emissions

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.

  Gina McCarthy

  Air, Years, Law

  "U.S. EPA: We need tougher ozone standards" by Gina McCarthy, money.cnn.com. November 26, 2014.

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• And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the 'job-killing organization of America.'

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Agency, Organization

  "The Monday Show" with Ed Schultz, www.nbcnews.com. June 14, 2011.

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• During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to roll back government regulations.Trump plans to nominate fast food executive Andrew Puzder to head the Labor Department and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the EPA. If confirmed, the two men would signal a sharp break from the policies of the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Rachel Martin

  Men, Two, Oklahoma

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Let’s shut down the EPA. The state knows best how to protect resources.

  Joni Ernst

  States, Resources, Protect

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• Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

  David Helvarg

  Office, Deeds, Administration

  Grist magazine, January 03, 2005.

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• If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Media, Effort

  "Declaring war on the regulatory state" by Fred Upton, www.washingtontimes.com. October 18, 2010.

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• Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Illinois, Rhode Island, Islands

  "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

  Joe Barton

  Common Sense, Trying, Regulation

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• Today's political leaders demonstrate their low opinion of the public with every social law they pass. They believe that, if given the right to chose, the citizenry will probably make the wrong choice. Legislators do not think any more in terms of persuading people; they feel the need to force their agenda on the public at the point of a bayonet and the barrel of a gun, in the name of the IRS, the SEC, the FDA, the DEA, the EPA, or a multitude of other ABCs of government authority.

  Mark Skousen

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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• The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.

  Gina McCarthy

  America, Growth, Regulation

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• The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

  Bob McDonnell

  Agency, Employment, Prevention

  Bob McDonnell RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.

  Ronald Reagan

  Agency, Air, Tree

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• The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents.

  Tom DeLay

  Government, Gestapo, Hook

  Associated Press, July 29, 1995.

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• I will lift the restrictions on the production of American energy, which is getting clobbered with the EPA, and by the way, and with the restrictions - including shale, oil, natural gas, and clean coal. We are putting our miners back to work.

  Donald Trump

  Oil, Coal, Way

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Hillary Clinton has promised to build on President [Barack] Obama's policies. That means build on Obamacare, build on Dodd-Frank, build on the regulations coming out of the EPA. If that's the case, that will not be good for the economy.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Mean, Obamacare, President

  Source: wwd.com

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• The EPA's [Clean Power Plan] is another example of Washington's lack of understanding when it comes to rural and Western energy issues. I oppose this new rule because it hurts my district, which has four coal-fired plants that power Arizona's big cities, small towns, businesses and residences. These plants also provide good-paying jobs in our tribal and rural regions.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Hurt, Jobs, Cities

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

  Roy Blunt

  Hurt, Jobs, Block

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

  Eric Greitens

  Hurt, Hard Work, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have already put hundreds of Pennsylvanians out of work and will continue to cause economic distress while yielding negligible benefits for our environment.

  Pat Toomey

  Agency, Environmental, Target

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [Donald] Trump was gonna investigate the whole kebang up there and figure out what had gone wrong and get rid of all the deadweight at every agency - EPA, DOJ, what have you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Agency, Gone, Figures

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Just wait and see this stuff play out as it does. But if, for example, why would he say some human activity linked to climate change when he has gone on record as saying that he doesn't believe it and we're gonna get people out of the EPA who do and we're gonna stop playing games with this. Why would he say it? [Donald Trump] wants to build a bridge with the opposition. This is why you don't see me at Trump Tower going up and down the elevators.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Play, Games

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Overall, you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has been, and whether it's the absolutely unconstitutional role that the EPA is playing and the president trying to kill our coal industry - Wyoming is the nation's largest coal-producing state. So when President Obama and Hillary Clinton say they're gonna put coal out of business, it hits us harder than just about anyplace else.

  Liz Cheney

  Country, Hurt, Years

  "Liz Cheney: We Must Unify Behind Trump". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 12, 2016.

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• We, the people, gave the marching orders to our democratically-elected officials and instructed them. We wanted out of Vietnam and we got out of Vietnam. We wanted women's right to choose and we got women's right to choose. We got the EPA, we got the Clean Air Act, Water Act, we got rights for workers in the workplace to be protected from dangers. We accomplished pretty much all of what we wanted when we had the courage of our convictions. That is the missing ingredient.

  Jill Stein

  Rights, Air, Order

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• I think there is some overreach in the sense that the EPA now says: if Congress doesn't pass greenhouse emissions regulations or testing, we'll simply do it on our own. I think that's an arrogance of a regulatory body run amok.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Thinking, Arrogance

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