Eric Maskin Quotes

I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

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.

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

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.

Conservation is not without a cost.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The current challenge facing the environmental authorities is how to properly deal with the environmental problems caused by economic development.

Just as we demand that our governments address risks associated with terrorism or epidemics, we should put concerted pressure on them to act now to preserve our natural environment and curb climate change.

The 'environmental left' tells us that, though we have natural resources like natural gas and oil and coal, and though we can feed the world, we should keep those things in the ground, put up fences, and be about prohibition.

EPA can and should now focus on getting real results in the fight for clean air, land, and water.

New Jerseyans know the importance of clean air, clean drinking water, and protecting our natural resources.

Clean air and clean water are absolute top priorities when we talk about responsible energy development; however, the final rule issued by the Obama administration does nothing to further protect our resources.

In Hawaii we understand why it is important to malama, or take care of, our land, ocean, and air - our way of life depends on it.

Whether you believe in climate change or not, we want clean air. We want clean water for the American people.

Californians want to have clean air, clean water - not like the Trump Administration is trying to do with its rollback of environmental regulations, like the reversal of the Clean Power Plan.

It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.