Every family's budget suffers when pollution makes health care more expensive. Every local economy is weakened when poor environmental conditions keep new businesses and new technologies out of a community. And every parent's heart breaks when exposure to a toxic waste site causes cancer in a young child. It doesn't have to be that way. Working together on behalf of our environment makes our businesses more competitive, our natural resources more secure, and our future more bright.
Less pollution means more jobs, better wages, and a stronger economy.
Investing in environmental protection means more jobs, greater profits, and healthier communities. And cleaning up our planet means that our children can learn, play, and mature into healthy young men and women. Recently, I was proud to be present at the release of a new report by Greenworks that showed how environmental technology could create up to 100,000 new jobs in Massachusetts by the year 2010. In 1996, I was very vocal in criticizing the horrendous environmental record of the last Congress. What the 104th Congress tried to do to the environment was unconscionable.