Thomas Carper Quotes

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.

Every American deserves to breathe clean air.

Years of government inaction on air pollution has got people thinking that the state cannot even protect basic public goods like clean air.

I think the bottom line for Oregonians is that cleaner fuels mean cleaner air, and we need that, and we want that.

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

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

The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.

The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

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.

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

China may achieve its goal of reducing the carbon intensity of its economy (the ratio of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of output) by 45 percent below its 2005 level by 2020. But the country is growing so fast that its coal consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are expected to continue to increase. China is expected to add the equivalent of a new 500-megawatt coal-fired electric plant every 10 days for the next decade...

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.

Clean air shouldn't be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled.

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

The access to clean air and clean water is a basic right.

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.

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.

Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

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.

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.