As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician’s impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People’s lives and our country’s resources are at stake. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
We need a Congress that cares more about doing the people’s business than their own. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
Gary Johnson’s refusal or inability to name a single foreign leader, current or former, whom he admired, showed that he is not ready for the presidency. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
Jill Stein does not have the experience necessary to lead at a national level. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
The Clean Air Act of 1970 was designed to control air pollution on a national level by authorizing the development of comprehensive regulations to limit emissions. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. Christine Todd Whitman Read Quote
