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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

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✓Similar Perspectives

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

— Dan Quayle

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.

— Frances Beinecke

I am not convinced the Clean Air Act was ever intended to regulate or classify as a dangerous pollutant something as basic and ubiquitous in our atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

— Jim Webb

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 health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

— Lamar Alexander

Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

— Radhanath Swami

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

— Ma Jun

Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA has the ability to more stringently regulate dust. If the EPA determines more stringent standards are necessary, family farmers and ranchers, as well as rural economies, would be devastated.

— Stephen Fincher

✗Opposing Perspectives

The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

— Frances Beinecke