“The Bay is cleaner than it was 40 years ago when raw sewage and industrial pollution were dumped directly into it. While the pollution from business and point sources is strictly regulated, storm water pollution from our cars, homes and neighborhoods is still a major problem.”
Bruce Wolfe
“The AP's analysis of health risks posed by industrial pollution across the country is a substantial contribution to the public's understanding of where greater attention needs to be focused.”
Kathy Burns
“There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
Dan Quayle
“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.”
Robert Orben
“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted”
Diogenes
“Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources”
Ronald Reagan
