Many of the services the environment provides, like clean water and air, are irreplaceable necessities, they point out.
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The Clean Water and Clean Air Acts each cost about one per cent of G.
Government are teachers in the classroom. (Applause.) Government are our firefighters and our police officers, and the folks who keep our water clean and our air clean to breathe, and our agricultural workers.
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Zoning laws would be rewritten so that, over time, large parcels of abandoned land would be converted into landscaped open space networks that would capture and clean storm water, improve air quality, and clean contaminated soil as well as provide new recreational opportunities like bike paths and hiking trails and create habitats for local wildlife and migrating birds.
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And if they are not providing the kind of benefits in terms of the public health, and clean air and clean water, and worker safety that have been promised, then we should get rid of some of those regulations.
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We have low population density, clean air, fresh water, fertile land, an ocean on either side and a grand total of two nations on our borders. (One of which is a also a huge, stable and peaceful nation with clean air, fresh water, and fertile land and even lower population density).
With more than 1 million members, NRDC has won landmark cases and helped pass landmark laws to clean up our air and water, protect our forests and wildlife, and keep our climate safe.
Second, worsening scarcity of critical resources like clean water, clean air, electric power, and land (and increasing oversupply of traffic, pollution, and greenhouse gases).
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More economic development would produce the money to help clean the now foul water and air, but also provide access to better education, one of the best ways to assure more manageable birth rates.
When all on earth need is Clean Air and Water, and Clean Cities.
Mr Bush is fond of saying that you cannot regulate or sue your way to clean air and water.
Gore spokesman Douglas Hattaway said the endorsement is important because clean air and water are important issues for many voters.
Environmental issues such as clean air and water are major concerns of voters as this year's elections approach, according to a poll conducted for the League of Conservation Voters.
Grit can get trapped in the mushrooms' nooks and crannies, so give them a swish in a bowl of cold water, then repeat with fresh water until the water runs clean and let them air dry in a single layer on kitchen towels.
The EPA is the lead agency for suspension and debarment matters regarding BP and has the authority to disbar individuals and companies under sections of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
Their plan says that somehow if we eliminate regulations that keep our air and water clean for our kids, that that's going to help job growth.
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The cruise capital may have good air quality, clean drinking water and vast green spaces, but it doesn't have many openings.
Plants provide invaluable services, they provide us with the very air we breathe, clean water and fertile soil and they help regulate the climate.
Global revenues from clean tech businesses--including air and water purification, advanced materials, distributed power generation, renewable energy, and process controls, such as sensors to monitor air and water--now surpass 85 billion pounds, according to the Cleantech Venture Network, a for-profit membership group that connects venture and institutional investors with entrepreneurs.
If it becomes law, it will be harder to force agribusinesses to report how much they befoul the air and water, much less clean it up.
The Greater Houston Partnership, an alliance of hard-nosed businessmen that looms large locally, has worked well with Bill White, Houston's business-minded but green mayor, to support his clean-up of the city's air and water.
And he helped implement PlaNYC, a long-term scheme to build houses for up to 1m New Yorkers, link them to transport, clean up brownfields, plant 1m trees and improve air and water across the five boroughs.
On the environment, Capuano will push for more money to clean up superfund sites and will oppose efforts to roll back air and water pollution standards.
The next administration and the next Congress need to detoxify the conversation over clean air, clean water, protecting the health of American families, preserving our wild places, seeking energy independence, and saving endangered birds and wildlife.
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Lying in the shadow of the active volcano Mt Tarawera, Rotorua Lakes is an unrivalled natural landscape where water is clean enough to drink, sweet-smelling air comes alive with native birdsong and fern-filled forests are as bright as a bottle of absinthe.
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