Chuck Norris Quotes

It's never been proven that air toxics are hazardous to people.

There are so many chemicals in things - that's why people are getting sick.

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.

Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs.

Every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

Glyphosate is only one of more than 80,000 registered commercially produced chemicals in the U.S. Some of these compounds, such as PFOA and the one I made my name investigating, hexavalent chromium, have also been convincingly linked to health crises - testicular cancer in the case of PFOA and lung cancer in the case of chromium-6.

As mothers, women are often the first to know when the food they feed their children is tainted with pollutants or impurities, because they can see it in the tears of their children and hear it in their babies' cries.

It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

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.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

There is no doubt that environmentally related diseases will continue to pose problems in the future.

When people are involved, accidents will happen…. You don’t want to drink frack fluid.

We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.

The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.

The Center for Disease Control's bio-monitoring program has found that the majority of Americans carry residues of BPA in their bodies.

everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

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

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer.

We're exposed and carry in our bodies multiple chemicals, and we have to understand how they interact. Both how they individually interact and the thousands of effects they can produce when they interact with the receptors that run our bodies.