Sentences with phrase «big polluters»

You are biggest polluters in the world.

As time passed, it became clear that the oil slump was more than just a temporary downturn — it was also an eye - opener for those who had relied on Big Polluters for so long.

VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix is calling on the Liberals to immediately fix the Pacific Carbon Trust and end the Liberal practice of taking money from schools and hospitals and using it to subsidize big polluters like Encana.

The climate deniers and big polluters on the others side, not so much.

New Democrats have repeatedly pointed out that it is ludicrous to force the public sector, which is responsible for less than one per cent of greenhouse gases emitted in the province, to subsidize big polluters who pay no penalty for the majority of their greenhouse gas emissions.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.

To get to the trajectory altogether, which would imply peaking of global energy emissions well before 2020 other big polluters will have to deliver on their emission cuts, too.

VICTORIA — New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming is outlining a new vision for the Pacific Carbon Trust which would end the practise of subsidizing big polluters using funds taken from schools and hospitals.

The ETS has been flirting with big polluters since the start.

But judicial determination could take years, allowing Pruitt to give Big Polluters carte blanche to continue dumping dangerous pollution into our atmosphere like it's an open sewer.

That's why it's important to me and NYCC that we're part of NY Renews, a statewide coalition of over 140 organizations building power to win a transition to 100 % renewable energy and hold big polluters accountable.

But the move to repeal and replace the plan is really about protecting Big Polluters» bottom lines at our expense.

Megan will give an update about the critical climate and energy campaigns happening now: both to pass bills in the General Assembly and to stop big polluters, like the proposed fracked gas export plant at Cove Point.

«Time is now to take full action towards sustainable practises, and transform big polluters into environment savers.»

If big polluters don't pay their fair share for the price for pollution, the heavy burden will continue to fall on low - income families, communities of color, our children, wildlife and future generations.

As many local activists waved signs protesting the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline, she denounced her Republican opponent, former state legislator John Faso of Kinderhook, as a lobbyist for an energy company dealing in fracked gas and promised to «stand up against big polluters who want to pollute our waterways.

That's too bad, because China and the U.S. remain the two biggest polluters when it comes to greenhouse gases.

It's really quite simple: You can't throw your garbage on the street for free, so big polluters shouldn't be allowed to spew harmful emissions into our atmosphere for free.

, a statewide coalition of over 140 organizations building power to win a transition to 100 % renewable energy and hold big polluters accountable.

[Translate] With the rich nations clearly in charge and big polluters acting as corporate sponsors, is a meaningful climate change...

Worse still, the reduction in industrial output caused by the recession has allowed big polluters to build up a bank of carbon permits which they can carry into the next phase of the trading scheme.

2007/04/20: NineMSN: Carbon trading «futile» without China Human activity is contributing to climate change but programs like emissions trading are futile unless big polluters such as China and the US are on board, Treasurer Peter Costello says.

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

Just now, the EPA has formally announced that it will delay regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the nation's biggest polluters until next year.

«The same big polluters who spent hundreds of millions failing to buy their way into the Senate and the White House in 2012 are likely to support Ken Cuccinelli in 2013,» Hight said in an email.

Add your name now and demand that EPA protect our health and our planet, not the bottom lines of the administrator's Big Polluter friends.

As the world's second - biggest polluter after China, a move by the U.S. to scrap the accord involving almost 200 nations would pour hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and speed up the warming trend already taking place.

3 of the world biggest polluters by 2012 are not affected (China, India, Brazil).

The Paris climate conference is sponsored by over 60 companies including big polluters EDF, Engie and BNP Paribas.

We have Trump and his oil - soaked mockery of the Environmental Protection Agency in our backyard, big polluters threatening our communities» drinking water with numerous pipeline projects, and rising seas putting our region at risk of devastation and massive displacement during a time of rampant and increasing gentrification that's already hitting vulnerable and minority communities hardest.

«Once again, the United States and its pro-fossil fuel allies are on the wrong side of history, putting Big Polluters before people and the planet.

The proposals agreed by the European Parliament contain handouts, in the form of free permits and a series of funds (with limited oversight), that could offer big polluters around $ 198 billion between 2021 and 2030.

«Coal is the single biggest polluter,» Bloomberg told the Guardian.

The EPP and its allies also successfully pushed for the re-inclusion of the cement sector in the long list of industries that receive free pollution permits, which are worth billions of euros and help big polluters avoid having to clean up their act.

«Any claims to the contrary represent big polluters» interests over Ohioans».»

The latest revelations from Peabody's bankruptcy court documents show the unprecedented extent to which big polluters like Peabody went to subvert climate action.

It leaves big polluters with a smaller bill.

We're here to tell you why Washingtonians who care about climate change, who care about clean air and water, who care about lifting people out of poverty, who care about making big polluters responsible for the damage they cause, who care about helping working families, should be passionately shouting from the rooftops in favor of I - 732.

One is that it is going to disappoint and anger a lot of people, particularly those who think the job of a climate treaty is to force big polluters to change their ways.

These tiny round beads look innocuous — but they're actually big polluters.

A coalition of coal companies, big polluters in the power industry, and their political allies in mostly red states are trying everything to block the Clean Power Plan.

As the chief of Rio's iron ore division he was there taking notes in 2004 at the secret meeting of big polluters called by John Howard to work out ways of screwing the renewables industry (page 140).

The Polish government's decision to invite sponsorship from big polluters and to host a coal summit during the talks has already drawn heavy criticism from civil society organisations.

Today, common sense prevailed over pressure from Big Oil and other big polluters to deny the obvious in order to maintain the status quo on energy.

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.