Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

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

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

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

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

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.