Environmental Remediation Quotes

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.

Medicaid is one of the rare times where Democratic governors are saying, "Hey, states' rights." We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.

We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.

The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

I hear over and over again from local leaders and business owners that one of the best ways we can revitalize our cities and towns is to support brownfields cleanup efforts.

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

I think there is a direct correlation between interest shown by a member of Congress on these projects and the progress that is made. I think it gives the Superfund effort some credibility, lets citizens know we are serious about these cleanups.

Brownfields cleanups have been treated like capital investments in the tax laws, and they really are repairs and should be taxed as such.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

New Jersey has more Superfund sites than other state in the nation, but considerable progress has been made.

Nature is solving all sorts of problems that we throw at her - how to degrade plastic bottles, how to degrade pesticides and herbicides and antibiotics. She creates new enzymes in response to that all the time, in real time.

The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.