Sentences with phrase «american clean air and water»

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«It shows the Trump administration doesn't hold the same American values for clean air, clean water and healthy land as the vast majority of its citizens,» McCarthy said in a statement.

This approach recognizes that Americans have an equal right to clean air and water, no matter where they live, and allows states to compete for business without having to sacrifice public health or environmental quality.

(d) It further is the policy of the United States that, to the extent permitted by law, all agencies should take appropriate actions to promote clean air and clean water for the American people, while also respecting the proper roles of the Congress and the States concerning these matters in our constitutional republic.

These departments are essential to the health and safety of all Americans: protecting public health; ensuring clean air, water, and the safety of our food and consumer goods; protecting our natural resources; and responding to national emergencies of all kinds, from terror attacks to natural disasters.

As Americans, let's start at home by making the United States the most fuel efficient country with the cleanest air, the cleanest water, the most advanced electrical grid, the best educated work force, etc., and let others follow our lead.

But a solid majority of Americans think that climate change is a problem, and that the EPA is a necessary tool for keeping our air and water clean — and they might squirm at the thought of electing a leader whose views on both are so extreme and dismissive.

She was also the climate adaptation policy analyst at the Center for Clean Air Policy, director of flood management policy for American Rivers, and water program manager at the Georgia Conservancy.

Americans who want clean air and water and a climate that supports civilization as we know it have to demand it.

Americans want clean air and clean water, and they don't want communities and beautiful places devastated by coal mining.

Coal has no place in the clean energy economy that will put Americans back to work and further coal mining is unnecessarily devastating to our land, air and water.»

The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts restrict growth and control land use but do little to make America more healthful, that EPA increasingly alarms rather than informs the American citizenry.

He has introduced legislation to spur development of wind, solar and geothermal energy, knowing that they can deliver sustainable energy and new jobs, and has stood up against attacks on the EPA because he understands that clean air and water save American lives.

But he has since backtracked, saying in September that he'll «refocus the EPA on its core mission of ensuring clean air, and clean, safe drinking water for all Americans.»

To protect their fossil fuel interests, which are at odds with the public's desire for a safe climate, clean water, and healthy air to breathe, the Kochs have spent the last several decades radically changing the face of American democracy, and investing major amounts of money in think tanks and other outlets involved in climate denial.

We know that addressing climate change through reduction in fossil fuel use will lead to cleaner air and water, to immediate health benefits for Americans, and will help to limit global climate change.

the Industry has used its political power to escape accountability, leaving the American people unprotected, and no Industry can claim to be part of the solution if it supports exemptions from the basic Laws designed to ensure that we have Clean Water and Clean Air» Natural Resources Defense Council.

Under her leadership, the EPA has taken sensible and important steps to protect the air we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollutiair we breathe and the water we drink, including implementing the first national standard for harmful mercury pollution, taking important action to combat climate change under the Clean Air Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollutiAir Act, and playing a key role in establishing historic fuel economy standards that will save the average American family thousands of dollars at the pump, while also slashing carbon pollution.

The legal hammer of these laws would give rise to the Hudson River Fishermen's Association (HRFA — that evolved into the Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper organizations of today) as well as American magna carta laws such as The Clean Air Act (1970) The Clean Water Act (1972) The Endangered Species Act (1973) and others.

We know that the President is on the side of clean air, clean water, and the health of American families.

It therefore refused to hear the Mossville complaints about alleged violations of the right to life and the right to health; these, it ruled, had to be brought in American courts under the American Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.

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