Sentences with phrase «big polluters in»

It has failed to make any substantial dent in the EU's greenhouse gas emissions, while returning billions of euros to big polluters in the form of unearned profits.

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.

You can put in your zip code and find out who are the big polluters in your area and look at the federal database that they scrape.

Tyson is the biggest polluter in Arkansas and I don't believe there is a company in the world that promotes real Christianity.

While six world leaders reiterated their commitment to the Paris accord, US President Trump hedged, saying that the United States — by far the biggest polluter in the G7 — would announce a decision this week.

You are biggest polluters in the world.

In its haste to jump - start «shovel - ready» stimulus projects, the Obama administration allowed many of the biggest polluters in the nation to sidestep key environmental regulations.

He's also going to increase the permits to the biggest polluters in the first year from 90 per cent to 95 per cent for the most assisted group and from 60 per cent to 70 per cent — so that in the first year the biggest polluters will be effectively paying 50 cents per tonne to pollute, as Environment Victoria noted.

It's a massive 1,500 megawatt plant that is the largest remaining coal plant in New England, and it's one of the biggest polluters in the state.

China and US are the biggest polluters in the world, with India ranking third, according to the 2015 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) report.

We were reminded that the deal resulted in many benefits not directly related to climate change (like mercury controls on the plants) and that the state achieved certainty that one of the biggest polluters in the west will eventually shut down.

This summer, a new campaign, led by some of the biggest polluters in the state, was launched to oppose I - 732.

Kathy Mohr - Almeida and her daughter Anna (pictured at the right)- along with millions of others in Arizona and surrounding states - could breathe a little easier if the Environmental Protection Agency steps up to enforce the Clean Air Act protections for Navajo Generating Station, one of the biggest polluters in Arizona.

Not exact matches

«The Trump administration's continued denial of climate change in service of big polluters will have grave consequences for our children and our grandchildren,» Udall added.

A new carbon emissions reduction target has been set before talks in Paris, but taxpayers are now footing the bill - not the big polluters.

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.

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.

Fashion is the second largest polluter in the world, right behind Big Oil.

Calling the United States «the biggest polluter and the biggest energy user in the world,» Turner said the country needs to take the lead in ridding itself of coal and oil dependence.

We've found that the top 20 meat and dairy companies emitted more greenhouse gases in 2016 than all of Germany, Europe's biggest climate polluter by far.

IN because in the fight against climate change, and in a world where some of the biggest players are also the biggest polluters, Europe's nations can only make a difference if we work togetheIN because in the fight against climate change, and in a world where some of the biggest players are also the biggest polluters, Europe's nations can only make a difference if we work togethein the fight against climate change, and in a world where some of the biggest players are also the biggest polluters, Europe's nations can only make a difference if we work togethein a world where some of the biggest players are also the biggest polluters, Europe's nations can only make a difference if we work together.

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.

Hartz said that in addition to new jobs, the town's economy is cleaner now because of the closing of Huntley, a coal - fired power plant that had been one of Erie County's biggest polluters.

The United States and Canada are moving to ban microbeads — the tiny plastic bits in toothpaste and facewash that are big water polluters.

This documentary captures the crusading president's first year in office, following him as he struggled to win cooperation from the world's biggest carbon polluters at the Copenhagen Climate Summit.

Starting in July next year, Australia's 500 biggest polluters will have to pay A$ 23 ($ 25) per tonne of carbon they emit.

If this case is allowed to proceed, asked the justices, should subsequent cases be limited to big polluters like the five targeted in this suit?

In his campaign last fall, President Barack Obama called for a «cap and trade» plan that would auction off carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions allowances to big carbon polluters.

The greater sage grouse as a species isn't having it much easier: Under the new Trump administration, in June 2017 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced plans for a «review» threatening to undermine efforts to protect the greater sage grouse across 11 western states, therebygiving big oil companies and other polluters potential new access to vital grouse habitat.

The Southern Company is the top carbon polluter among U.S. utilities and the eighth - biggest in the world, according to Carbon Monitoring for Action.

ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: I hopped in the ELR only to find that its electric range was completely depleted — a previous editor who will remain unnamed neglected to plug it in, so I was in big, bad polluter mode during my entire stint in the car (I don't have any place to plug it in at home).

Why should Caribbean countries with relatively low emissions suffer the effects of an environmental tax, in favour of the world's biggest polluter?»

Too many leftist activists are therefore tending to side with the big polluters because they think they're standing in solidarity with the world's poor.

Hansen commutes 60 miles to work every day and prefers to ride around in jets, all the while NASA is one of the biggest polluters of the environment on the planet (the environment doesn't just stop at the part of the atmosphere you can breathe).

Global warming: Hillary: This administration has allowed the climate to be in the pockets of big polluters for too long!

• Lifting the targets to 25 - 40 % by 2020 based on the latest scientific evidence • • Abolishing the free permits granted to the biggest polluters • • Ensuring that individual action results in lower emissions, not lower carbon prices • Unless these major flaws in the CPRS can be fixed the government should introduce a carbon tax as a matter of urgency.

Interestingly, the landmark international accord draws a big fat highlight (and maybe a circle and some stars in the margin) across the work that activists and leaders are doing in the Pacific Northwest: not just the work to keep fossil fuels in the ground and make polluters pay for their pollution, but also our work to reduce the influence of money in politics and reform broken North American democratic institutions.

Already the planet's largest energy consumer and polluter, China has long taken the position that it is the industrialised nations who should be taking up the biggest burden of emissions cuts, so it is to be welcomed that the Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced plans to curb the growth in some major pollutants by 1.5 % annually from 2011.

Most Republican members of Congress are now under great pressure from the big polluters who are their big money campaign donors to actively oppose clean energy industries that have been an agent of economic growth in the nation generally and in rural Republican districts specifically.

In the 45 or so minutes of ensuing conversation — punctuated by a couple of screaming matches in Mandarin between members of the Chinese delegation that were not translated — the world's biggest carbon polluters, for the first time in history, agreed on a common goaIn the 45 or so minutes of ensuing conversation — punctuated by a couple of screaming matches in Mandarin between members of the Chinese delegation that were not translated — the world's biggest carbon polluters, for the first time in history, agreed on a common goain Mandarin between members of the Chinese delegation that were not translated — the world's biggest carbon polluters, for the first time in history, agreed on a common goain history, agreed on a common goal.

[7] According to a 2009 report by Environment America, «America's Biggest Polluters,» the Monroe Power Plant is the seventh largest carbon dioxide emitting plant in the nation, releasing 20.6 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2007.

How far will fossil fuel industry - funded elected officials go to protect one of the biggest carbon polluters in the world?

«The challenge facing the world's biggest polluters — The clock is ticking in the race to agree a new treaty to cut the emissions that cause global warming.

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

It is these same power stations that are among the biggest greenhouse gas polluters in Australia.

In an excerpt of the article about «The Climate Killers,» Singer is described as «A former mouthpiece for the tobacco industry» who «is still wheeled out as an authority by big polluters determined to kill climate legislation.»

In the tight little world of greenhouse lobbying, the Prime Minister saw nothing improper in going to the country's biggest greenhouse polluters to ask them what the Government should do about greenhouse policy, without extending the same opportunity to other industries, not to mention environment groupIn the tight little world of greenhouse lobbying, the Prime Minister saw nothing improper in going to the country's biggest greenhouse polluters to ask them what the Government should do about greenhouse policy, without extending the same opportunity to other industries, not to mention environment groupin going to the country's biggest greenhouse polluters to ask them what the Government should do about greenhouse policy, without extending the same opportunity to other industries, not to mention environment groups.

Five prominent non-profits have launched the «Polluter Fraud Hotline» (1-866-363-4648), inviting average citizens or industry insiders to blow the whistle on any deceptive or illegal tactics that big polluters and their lobbyists are using in opposition to clean energy legislation.

In a formal statement, the Canadian government said it «applauds» the move by Australia this week to repeal a carbon tax on the country's 300 biggest polluters.