Dollar / Dollars Hören / Hear MwSt / Tax Politiker / Politicians Sagen / Say Schutz / Protection Über / Over Umwelt / Environmental Umweltschutz / Environmental Protection Unsere / Our Verbringen / Spend Wirtschaft / Economy Zerbrechlich / Fragile
Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.
You name it - it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: 'Please stop them. Please stop.'
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.
There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
