Andrew Weil Quotes

Every American deserves to breathe clean air.

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.

Government Enviornmental poisitions are tradeoffs. In that process, Democrats tend to worry more about the harm done to the enviornment and the health of the people; Republicans tend to worry more about harm to business and the economy.

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.

No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

Natural gas obviously brings with it a number of quality-of-life environmental benefits because it is a relatively clean-burning fuel. It has a CO2 footprint, but it has no particulates. It has none of the other emissions elements that are of concern to public health that other forms of power-generation fuels do have: coal, fuel oil, others.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

Every time we try to do something to improve the environment someone predicts that it will ruin the economy.

The free market should not include the right to pollute our environment.

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

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.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

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.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

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.

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.