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Environment
Easley called the [Clean Smokestacks]
law "one of the most important pieces of legislation
in the state's history… The health risks associated
with poor air quality, Easley said, "affect every
facet of our lives. It's not just an abstract issue
called the environment… "I'd like to see
the federal government take two steps," he said,
"stop rolling back the protections we have now
and move in the direction we have gone in North Carolina."
-Plant installing clean air device; 6/10/03 Asheville
Citizen Times
“There is not another plan in
the country that goes this far toward cleaning harmful
smokestack emissions from our air -- and it does so
without raising rates," Easley said during a bill-signing
ceremony in Raleigh that attracted an unusual array
of Democratic and GOP state lawmakers, utility executives,
environmentalists and public health advocates.
-N.C. Imposes Strict Anti-Pollution Standards; 6/21/02
Washington Post
"I'm seeing more of a rollback
in environmental initiatives from Washington than progress,"
he said at a news conference in Charlotte.
"It's more than coal plants," Easley told
about 200 participants who attended the summit, including
government officials, industry representatives and environmentalists.
"We all arrived here today riding in our own smokestack."
"North Carolina had to clean its own house first,"
Easley said. "I'm glad to say we have taken a gigantic
step in that direction."
-Governors: It's up to states to clear air; 5/11/02
Durham Herald Sun, Associated Press
Pollution does not honor state boundaries,"
Easley said. "A state can't keep itself clean alone,
any more than a state can stop global warming alone.
Any more than you can clean up the neighborhood by painting
one house. We all have to work together… Easley,
whose General Assembly is considering a multi-pollutant
cleanup plan, said the billions of dollars utilities
say it will cost to meet new regulations should not
stand in the way… We ought to start with the basic
principle that it is much cheaper to clean smokestacks
than it is to clean lungs," Easley said. "And
it is cheaper to clean smokestacks than parks and buildings
and to replace mountains."
-Southern Governors consider pollutant accord; 6/1/01
Associated Press
"We're going to make sure that
we do remove" haze surrounding the state's mountains,
Easley said. "We're going to see a great impact
in North Carolina as a result of that… "We
are cleaning up our act all over North Carolina. Once
we do that, then we have some credibility," Easley
said.
-Bluer skies for tourism; 4/10/01 Asheville Citizen
Times
"We must make certain that this
is the last time that North Carolina extends its moratorium,"
Easley said. "It's time to make real progress and
move away from this antiquated system. We need to develop
new technologies that will allow the pork industry in
North Carolina to continue to prosper without posing
a threat to public health and the environment."
-Hog Farms growth nixed; 4/16/03 Raleigh News and Observer
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