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“I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.”

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Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees.”

Might Study Air Tree Percent Plant Suits Agency Pollution Pipe Institute Chimneys Suppressing Petroleum Air Pollution Misinterpreted Plants And Trees Epa

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

“I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.”

Years Air Approach Pollution Institute Stanford Hoover Air Pollution Pollution Control

Author:Gale Norton

“You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!”

Want Cutting Air Source Originals Pollution Air Pollution

Author:Walt Kelly

“Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.”

Humans Activity Normal Accidents Nuclear Human Activity Air Pollution

Book:Wolves Eat Dogs

Source: Wolves Eat Dogs

“Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.”

Jobs Opportunity Energy Nations Growth Millions Air Security Cost Fuel Pollution Dependence Pumps Air Pollution Ethanol Energy Security

Author:Lane Evans

“Love is in the air but the air is highly polluted”

Love Is Air Air Pollution

Author:Amit Abraham

“In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.”

Country Water Nature Air Drink Breathe Save Mother Earth Developed Country Air Pollution Underdeveloped Countries

Author:Jonathan Raban

“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.”

Firsts Problem Law Environment Air Kings Economics England Burning Consideration Pollution Execution Penalties Offense Coal Death Penalty Mother Earth Save Mother Earth Air Pollution

Author:Glenn T. Seaborg

“Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.”

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Author:Julianne Moore

“As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.”

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Author:Majora Carter

“The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.”

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Author:Josh Fox

“I know Teddy Kennedy had fun at the Democratic convention when he said that I said that trees and vegetation caused 80 percent of the air pollution in this country. ... Well, now he was a little wrong about what I said. I didn't say 80 percent. I said 92 percent-93 percent, pardon me. And I didn't say air pollution, I said oxides of nitrogen. Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen. ... If we are totally successful and can eliminate all the manmade oxides of nitrogen, we'll still have 93 percent as much as we have in the air today.”

“I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.”

Support Air Percent Clean Administration Fuel Engines Pollution Diesel Air Pollution Sulfur Diesel Fuel

Author:Steve Buyer

“In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air.”

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Author:Thomas Carper