Sentences with phrase «with big polluters»

The ETS has been flirting with big polluters since the start.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

They represent a victory for big polluters and Northern elites that wish to continue with business - as - usual.

The proposals agreed by the European Parliament contain handouts, in the form of free permits and a series of funds (with limited oversight), that could offer big polluters around $ 198 billion between 2021 and 2030.

With the rich nations clearly in charge and big polluters acting as corporate sponsors, is a meaningful climate change agreement truly possible?

The reason: Special interest groups, with funding and support from Big Polluters, have spent decades on well - coordinated campaigns to spread doubt in the media and sway public opinion about the reality of the crisis.

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

With such relatively clean air throughout America, how can even reputable news agencies like Reuters continue spreading the well - worn lie that the United States is one of the «biggest polluters» in the world?

In the end it has been an expensive PR exercise that absolved Australia's biggest polluters of any real responsibility while giving the Government the opportunity to claim that it was working with industry to tackle the problem of climate change.

And instead of giving the bill a fair shake on the floor, big polluters and some in the Senate are waiting in the wings to hijack the bill with a cadre of toxic amendments.

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.

Obama also moved to cement relations with other big climate polluters — notably China, entering a joint agreement last year to cut emissions, and India, Brazil, and Mexico.

The EPA has been put through hell this week — first, there were the Congressional hearings in which the new chairman of the House Energy Committee, along with others, railed against the expanded Clean Air Act rules that would hold the nation's biggest polluters to stricter standards.