Sentences with phrase «industrial polluters»

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.»

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has fought federal environmental officials» efforts to crack down on industrial polluters in his state.

As a congressional representative of the people, you turn your back on them to prop up a criminal enterprise that has created illegal jobs, and then tries to subvert democracy and change the law to prevent the EPA from doing their job to protect the waters of America and the people from industrial polluters.

Chauvet Cave in the valley of the Ardèche River in France is filled with paintings, engravings and drawings created more than 30 000 years ago, of cave The apparel industry accounts for 10 % of global carbon emissions and remains the second largest industrial polluter, second only to oil.

The map includes only industrial polluters who pump out more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, so there's plenty missing from this picture.

This leaves Alberta as a rare example of a North American jurisdiction with any regulatory system for emissions, whereby industrial polluters pay a modest $ 15 levy for every tonne of CO2 they release.

Yet, putting CO2 capture on coal - fired power plants and other big industrial polluters seems less a question of whether and more a question of when.

Government agencies like the EPA may be bulky, slow - moving, even a bit bloated — but those agencies, along with the advocacy groups that push them to act, are the only true guards we've got against industrial polluters.

The duo poured over tens of millions of government documents, collected independent air monitoring from around the country, and delved into the workings of industrial polluters nearby schools.

Advocates pushed for countries to adopt binding targets for emissions reduction, require that industrial polluters help developing countries contend with climate change, and lower the target cap for global temperature increase — from 2 degrees celsius to 1.5 degrees.

has already assured industrial polluters that he's on their side, stating, «EPA continues to propose and promulgate rules at a breakneck pace without a complete and accurate understanding of their impacts on consumers, jobs and small businesses.»

The Once - ler, a clear - cutting industrial polluter.

As such, there's a strong argument to be made for bringing the carbon tax closer into focus: With Occupy Wall Street rallying attention to the income inequality gap and Americans growing increasingly frustrated with corporate greed, a tax that hits industrial polluters and relieves the individual tax burden could start sounding pretty good to plenty of folks.

And half assured that farmers are able to make the changes they need from their fields if industrial polluters were not trying to «help» them so much.

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

Too much chemical intrusion is polluting the local drinking water and marshlands, especially nitrogen, from industrial polluters, inadequate sewage infrastructure, and fertilizers and pesticides from farms and lawns.

The real prize is for the private sector and agribusiness lobby to lure private finance when selling the carbon credits to industrial polluters who want to offset their emissions.

There are droves of people who oppose any action to slow climate change or restrictions on industrial polluters or so forth.

The budget calls for more enforcement money for the FDA to step up drug safety rules, more for the EPA to crack down on industrial polluters, additional funds to protect endangered species and land and water conservation and to protect wildlife from climate change.

RGGI is a program created by northeastern states that generates funds by selling air emissions credits to 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.

Michael asks, and before long Toller is asking the same question — especially when he learns that Abundant Life, the parent church, is in business with one of the region's biggest industrial polluters.

(For example, what stance is the author taking on industrial polluters?

The musician Santigold pokes her head onto the screen as the leading lady in this new animation, The End of Eating Everything Her character is an immense creature, a savage consumer and industrial polluter.

If global warming does slow down or partially reverse with a sunspot crash, industrial polluters and reluctant nations could use it as a justification for turning their backs on pollution controls altogether, makingmatters worse in the long run.

Industrial polluters have gone to great lengths to stifle environmental advocacy, but their expansion of censorship laws has finally crossed a line for some federal judges.

Under the topic «Ways to Clean Up Our Air» the ALA report states: - «Old coal - fired power plants are among the biggest industrial polluters, especially in the eastern half of the United States... An analysis released in 2004 attributed 24,000 premature deaths each year to power plant pollution.