In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

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

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.