Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they’re not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won’t operate at its peak...

In Florida I think we sort of lack a vision of where we want to be in 10, 15 years.

Any change from the lower court opinion will certainly result in fewer waters protected. What that means is less clean water for the drinking supplies, less clean water for the environment.

What we see is a Congress who tends to think that the job of public health and environmental protection is not particularly important, that the job in some ways is done and that we don't have to worry about further reducing pollution.

We're very, very concerned right now here at the EPA when you are getting this level of heat in the summer months -- we're driving our cars, we're running our power plants -- more pollution builds up.

Americans deserve both clean air and clean water and never one at the expense of the other.

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America...

The way we guarantee safe drinking water is broken and needs to be fixed,

A food waste reduction hierarchy-feeding people first, then animals, then recycling, then composting-serves to show how productive use can be made of much of the excess food that is currently contributing to leachate and methane formation in landfills.