Environment
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Speech at the International Water Quality Symposium, Washington, D.C.
We must clean up the streams and lakes. In addition to obvious reasons of health and recreation for doing so, the fact is that this is the most economical way to get at significant sources of water. The Hudson River pours 20 billion gallons a day into the Atlantic, all of which is too polluted…
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Statement Before the House Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Power, Syracuse, New York
There is no easy solution to our water pollution problems.
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Statement on Long Island Wetlands Bill, Delivered Before the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation
Scientists have pointed out that 60% of the seafood taken from water surrounding the United States is dependent on coastal bays and marshes for their existence
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Remarks at Model City Conference, Buffalo, New York
The plight of the cities—the physical decay and the human despair that pervades them—is the great internal problem of the American nation, a challenge which must be met.
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
Even as in the drive toward bigness and concentration, the city has reached heights never before dreamt of in the past, we have come suddenly to realize how heavy a price we have paid
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Speech at Worthington, Minnesota
There is simply not enough room in the big cities; and it is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people
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Remarks before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations of the United States Senate
The city is not just housing and stores. It is not just education and employment, parks and theaters, banks and shops.
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Statement to the Senate on July 12, 1966
The major danger from air pollution is one of health. Most of us know that carbon monoxide in a closed garage can kill us but fewer know of the indirect dangers.
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Statement to the Senate on July 12, 1966
We can make progress in our efforts to control air pollution only if we establish a Federal safety code for the major pollutants.
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Statement to the Senate
In looking forward toward legislation, I believe that major emphasis must be given to air pollution research and development. For this is an area where a major investment will pay dividends.
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Statement at the New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Air Pollution Control Conference
On a trip to Latin America last year, I saw people in Recife, in the poorest part of Brazil, who ate crabs which lived off the garbage that the people themselves threw in the shallow water near their shabby homes.
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Statement at the New York—New Jersey Metropolitan Area Air Pollution Control Conference
The time for studies is past. The time to apply what we already know is here. Economic progress may reduce cost rates. But we all pay for air pollution now, every day.
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