Erin Brockovich Quotes

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

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

The air pollution in Delhi has become a matter of public health concern nationally and internationally.

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.

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

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.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

I live on the West Coast of the United States, and yet the air that I breathe is sometimes the same air that was being breathed in China the day before.

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.

Experimental evidence [shows strongly] that the chemical purity of the air is of no importance [to health.]

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

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.

I wrote an essay about leaf blowers and the evil they do.

We have lived with deadly levels of air pollution for years, which have made us more vulnerable to coronavirus.

I think the air in New York is death.

Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America sick. The burning of Indonesian forests can keep Asia gasping for breath.

We want people to tell us the possible steps that can be taken to save ourselves from the harmful effects of air pollution.

I believe that cleansing and hydrating is extremely important, especially with the environment's condition and the pollution around.

We have never believed that any potential future benefits from fracking make it acceptable for the government to bulldoze over the concerns of local communities or the very real environmental dangers that can occur as a result of weak safeguards controlling the technical process.

It is a fact that, today, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution.

Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?