Kirsten Gillibrand actually said...

At a time when pictures of smog-filled foreign capitals are making front pages around the world, the United States should be taking the lead...

This implication is that somehow we can't have both a clean environment and a healthy economy. This is something I strongly disagree with.

I believe it is an urgent public health challenge and we have to take it very seriously.

In the richest and most innovative Country on earth, it is stunning that our air quality is moving back in this direction in the year 2014, ...