The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.