Environment

"EPA can no longer look the other way while states unlawfully exempt industrial polluters from vitally important air pollution control requirements.”

"Thanks to the courageous activists who stood up to them, they have failed."

“People, generations have died in South Philadelphia because of that oil refinery. The buck stops now. We will not allow another company to come in here and do what they did.”

"With the trees dying and the streams drying there is a recipe for disaster. Koalas are really on the brink of not surviving.”

Some environmental groups criticized the plan for lacking ambition and not directly targeting fossil fuel production.

This peer-reviewed study of air pollution impacts on older Americans suggests that current air qualitystandards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) do not protect public health, and that strengthening the standards could save over 140,000 American lives over a decade.

“We have a mountain of evidence of what they knew and what they did to deceive the public about the threat of climate change. And yet we’ve only scratched the surface.”

Experts warn that continued world population growth will make things worse.

"Opening more of the Arctic to drilling and fracking is incredibly reckless."

Cash payments from the government could help ease the transition to a climate-safe economy and weather the natural and economic storms to come.