Scott Pruitt Quotes

The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.

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

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.

My fear is that we are losing sight of how much we depend on the EPA to protect not just our environment but the people who live in it.

You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'

All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

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

I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.

I have generally and will always fight for clean air and safe drinking water laws.

There are issues the EPA should be dealing with. When I talk about the EPA and its role with the states, it's not an abolitionist view, that we don't need that agency. It's that the agency should act within the outlines established by Congress.

The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.

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.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways.

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

Governments at all levels and the whole society should act more vigorously to protect the land our lives depend on.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.