Sentences with phrase «big polluters who»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

He called on viewers to support leaders «who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for humanity.»

The celebration is corporately sponsored by one of the megachurch's biggest donors, who is also one of the state's biggest industrial polluters.

These include not only the head pastor, Rev. Jeff Jeffers (a terrific Cedric Kyles, better known to all as Cedric the Entertainer), but also Edward Balq (Michael Gaston), a top church donor who happens to work at one of the region's biggest industrial polluters.

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).

Australia is levying a new carbon tax, stating that what the government considers «big polluters,» or those who contribute a large carbon footprint, will be penalized.

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.

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.

We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people out there who would be most affected by this.

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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.

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.»

«Once again ignoring the severe climate crisis facing our nation, this administration is turning its back on reality and science, in favor of its polluter buddies,» said Seth Johnson, Earthjustice attorney who is co-counsel for the Sierra Club, «These standards are making big cuts in the carbon pollution that drives climate change, and a detailed technical review confirmed they're workable.

Several comments have been made that suggest the current legislation will enshrine property rights to the «big polluters» (who are compensated with free permits).

«It's not going to happen if we boast about how we're going to scrap international treaties, or have elected officials who are alone in the world in denying climate change, or put our energy and environmental policies in the hands of big polluters,» Mr. Obama said.»

The evidence for the seriousness of anthropogenic climate change has been convincing for several decades, is now irrefutable, and the body of evidence is continuously increasing; yet the number of Australians who believe that climate change may not be caused by humanity was around 50 % in early 2010 and was also increasing — due to a disinformation campaign run by the big greenhouse polluters.

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.

Would these things break the backs of the Corporatist who Lobby the Votes of Politicians — the same people you want to put in charge of Global Warming — the same folks who voted all Big Polluter Bills into creation in the first place?

Is it any wonder that organisations like the Australian Liberal Party, who rely heavily on donations from big business, do the bidding of the miners and polluters?

This provision was added at the behest of environmental - justice advocates who have long fretted that big refineries and other polluters (often situated in low - income areas) could simply evade making cuts under cap and trade by buying up permits instead.

Denis Bevington, MP for the Western Arctic who was also present last night, has written in the past about the potential for a cap - and - trade system to, «crack down on big industrial polluters,» and «generate billions annually.»