George Miller: “We are now the recipients of a vast amount of knowledge that is imparted to use because of the advances in photography…”

“We are now the recipients of a vast amount of knowledge that is imparted to use because of the advances in photography and in the satellite monitoring. And obviously what we see and what we show our schoolchildren and our families and others and the citizens of this country is the ramifications of local actions that spread far beyond the borders. The areas of Arizona and Colorado and New Mexico receive most of their pollution out of the southern California air basin. The people who travel and spend their hard-earned money to go visit the Grand Canyon cannot see across the rim not because of what happened in Arizona or in the Grand Canyon but what happened hundreds of miles away in southern California. If you look at the satellite photos and you see the pollution that comes out of Alabama, out of Georgia, moves down to the Florida Bay, moves around into the Florida Keys, and up the other side of Florida, and if it is not treated. And what this legislation says, if those same mayors and those same Governors that do not like unfunded mandates, do not like the cost, do not like timetables and do not like standards prevail, then everybody goes their own way.”