"This was a pollution treaty 20 years ago.
This is a chronic pollution case, not an acute one.
"Anybody with half a brain who saw the plume of ash chasing people down the street that day has got to know this is a horrendous pollution problem".
"This is a stunning pollution event.
"They are packaging this as a pollution cut, but in fact it is a pollution delay imposed on a program that the Clean Air Act requires to go faster," said Dave Hawkins, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.
This is a form of economic pollution that we could do without.
But this is a temporary solution and pollution reduction gains could easily be eclipsed if gas prices rise again.
I would like to say that people are genuinely disturbed by what is happening, in particular because this is a new kind of pollution, because it is chronic and because we do not know how long it will last.
"This is a historic moment in solving water pollution in New York City," said Larry Levine, a senior lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the environmental groups advocating for the new approach.
"This is a massive engine for noise and pollution over west London collectively and adding to it won't solve problems".
