Sentences with phrase «so big polluters»

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.

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The severity of Toller's convictions, as well as his disgust at the knowledge that his church has taken money from one of the town's biggest polluters, gives rise to an angry, confrontational question: Why have so many Christians rejected the science of climate change, effectively abdicated their God - given responsibility to look after the Earth?

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).

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

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.

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.

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 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 goal.

The fashion industry is now being counted as one of the world's biggest polluters, right behind Big Oil, so making sure you dispose of old clothing properly is an important step toward mitigating its environmental effects.

He's held Big Oil and other polluters accountable for their actions, and fought against expanded offshore drilling in the Arctic, by showing that the industry is not technologically prepared to do so.

at # 3 If cerain big polluters have the free permits, they still have the incentive to reduce their carbon emissions so as to make money by selling the permits that they receive.

«While it is good to see a leader of the world's richest country and biggest cumulative polluter finally promise to take actions, after over a decade of refusal to do so, the problem has become much bigger while the US was ignoring it,» he stated.

So not only the big polluters, the system itself is in the papal cross hairs.

Ebell, whose work has been funded by some of the nation's worst polluters, like Murray Energy, the nation's largest coal mining company, said, «I would like to have more funding [from big coal] so that I can combat the nonsense put out by the environmental movement.»

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

The globalists will empose a carbon tax so that they will have control of the average citizen driving and force them to pay taxes when big polluters like industry, china, india and the military complex will not have to pay anything - why not let another alternative fuel source develop - instead they (rockefellers) want to enslave us into this mindset... do not be enslaved!