Sentences with phrase «including big polluters»

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The Obama administration has taken steps to reduce these emissions through bilateral and multilateral agreements with major polluters, including China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and India.

It applies to around 300 of Australia's biggest polluters, including mining giant BHP Billiton, Qantas Airways and BlueScope Steel, and 60 percent of the country's 550 million metric ton of annual emissions.

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.

The emissions trading scheme is deaply flawed and includes huge pay - outs to the big polluters, the MRET has been corrupted by the creation of huge numbers of phantom renewable energy certificates.

But as long as the rich nations — and their big polluters — dictate the terms of the Paris accord, maintain unhealthy fossil fuel subsidies and refuse to establish a long - term market for renewable energy that includes putting a price on carbon emissions, a world that protects more vulnerable nations, humans, animals and plants from the impacts of climate change will remain a dream.

The biggest polluters are light trucks, which include SUVs, pickups, and minivans.