Companies that take shortcuts with their vehicle pollution-control systems shortchange the consumer and our environment. We will hold them accountable.

Most of our pollution control in America will come through good old-fashioned Wall Street financing.

The environment really doesn't care about hourly releases. What matters is the total increase, how much (pollution) you're bringing into an . . . area.

We are also setting high targets to eliminate pollution concerns and engines' impact on the environment.

Pages could be written on the immense losses of productive soil that occur annually in almost every continent of the earth; on lethal air pollution episodes in major urban areas; on the worldwide distribution of toxic agents, such as radioactive isotopes and lead; on the chemicalization of man's immediate environment-- one might say his very dinner table—with pesticide residues and food additives. Pieced together like bits of a jigsaw puzzle, these affronts to the environment form a pattern of destruction that has no precedent in man's long history on earth.

Royal Caribbean's crimes -- including dumping oil into our oceans, lying about it and trying to cover it up by obstructing justice -- are serious offenses that require serious punishment.