Koch Industries is also the fourteenth-largest air polluter and tenth-largest water polluter in America, according to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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The United States is the biggest polluter on the planet.
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The US is the second largest carbon polluter, after China.
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In another, "The Polluter" (2003), he is peeing in the river.
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The tax was based on a theory of the polluter pays.
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"The US is the biggest carbon polluter in history," she said.
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"It is the technology under the hood that is the polluter."
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The United States is world's second-biggest greenhouse gas polluter, after China.
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The United States is the world's second-biggest carbon polluter, after China.
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Even China, the world's second-largest polluter, has introduced stricter pollutant controls.
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And lest we forget, America is the largest carbon polluter in history.
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It's true that China is the biggest carbon polluter on the planet.
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How did China come to be the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter?
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Despite these warnings, Trump signed his pro-polluter trade deal last week.
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It is disgusting that Swamp King Trump praises the work of Polluter Pruitt.
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It read "Macron polluter of the earth", with the word 'champion' crossed out.
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The EPA is wrong to put its polluter friends' profits before people's health.
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EPA officials themselves have also worked to change the focus on polluter enforcement toward polluter compliance — emphasizing actions the agency has taken to work with polluters to educate them on how to better comply with EPA laws before they break them.
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By that measure, an independent Alberta might be the world's biggest polluter per person.
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Under Pruitt, the EPA might better be renamed the PPA – the Polluter Protection Agency.
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Miroslava Duma: Fashion is the second-highest polluter in the world, only behind oil.
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Even if they succeed beyond all expectations, the military will remain an enormous polluter.
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Cars are also a big polluter, and the emissions have contributed to climate change.
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" Eduardo Magalhães, 22, Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal "The 'polluter pays' principle is dramatically outdated.
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Indonesia is the second-largest plastic polluter of oceans in the world, after China.
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"That's like France pointing the finger at China as the bigger polluter," she said.
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Koch Industries, she reports, has been perhaps the most flagrant and willful polluter and scofflaw.
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So a referral is only the first step in advancing a case against a polluter.
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So far, 145 countries have ratified or accepted it, including China, the world's top polluter.
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The third biggest annual polluter is considering all new electric cars by the 2030s. 303.
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He is a longtime fossil-fuel lobbyist and helped to advance Trump's pro-polluter agenda.
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"We expect the polluter to pick up these costs, and not federal taxpayers," she said.
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The US is the second worst carbon polluter after China, according to the World Bank.
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He said he would slash environmental regulations that could make being a polluter very expensive.
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The United States, history's largest polluter, is nowhere close to meeting its emissions reductions targets.
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In fact, the tax debate so far has already been heavily skewed by polluter priorities.
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The same dynamic could play out in India, the world's third-largest carbon dioxide polluter.
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Dust from such projects is a major polluter; the new policies would surely create more.
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The largest polluter in the state is also Washington's largest oil refinery: BP Cherry Point.
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But the withdrawal of the world's second-largest polluter (behind China) cannot but have an impact.
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" "It's time...to stand with Hillary Clinton and reject Donald Trump and his big polluter agenda.
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China is the world's biggest carbon polluter, and its emissions won't start easing for many years.
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The trouble is that the United States is the second biggest annual climate polluter, after China.
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There are hopes that China's reputation as a smog-belching heavy polluter might slowly be fading.
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China. The world's largest polluter is now leading the way in the push for clean power.
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As well, China still holds the awkward status of being the world's biggest carbon dioxide polluter.
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He forged new ties with China, now the biggest annual climate polluter, to help make that happen.
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The United States is the world's second largest greenhouse gas polluter and also the world's largest economy.
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Only one polluter conceivably fits that description: Washington's last remaining coal plant, the TransAlta plant in Centralia.
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He sticks a trillion dollars' worth of stimulus, gives a green light for every polluter to go.
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These days, English has become so robust that it is no longer the polluted but the polluter.
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The United States, as the second largest polluter in the world, after China, must reassert its leadership.
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Perhaps the most fundamental policy to incentivise innovation would be greater reliance on the "polluter pays" principle.
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But, of course, we are very conscious that fabric making is the biggest polluter in the fashion industry.
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IN AMERICA, THE world's largest economy and its second biggest polluter, climate change is becoming hard to ignore.
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The IEA's most contentious finding is that emissions from China, the world's biggest polluter, dropped 1.5% last year.
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We cannot let the Trump administration's pro-polluter E.P.A. reverse half a century of progress on clean air.
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"The polluter should pay for it," Simon Ellin, chief executive of the Recycling Association, said in an interview.
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So as long as a polluter isn't dumping directly into federally regulated waters, they wouldn't need a permit.
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All of these outcomes represent some combination of cutting taxes for the rich and leaving polluter subsidies intact.
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Superfund authorizes the EPA to identify heavily polluted sites, clean them up and demand reimbursement from the polluter.
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If the polluter prevails in this case, property owners will not be the only ones paying the price.
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Taking the lead As the world's biggest polluter, China has a unique role to play in curbing rising temperatures.
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A dangerous, damaging and backward-looking agenda to protect polluter profits and put the rest of us at risk.
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That attitude appears to be shared by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the world's fourth-largest climate polluter.
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President Trump announced that the U.S., the biggest carbon polluter in history, would withdraw from the Paris climate accords.
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The Clean Water Act regulates what's referred to as "point source" pollution, which comes directly from an identifiable polluter.
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The rules aim to prevent a polluter from evading liability by using another company to stand in its place.
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Or the polluter might offset its greenhouse gas emissions by investing in a reforestation initiative or renewable energy project.
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"We have a 'polluter pays' principle in this country: You break something in a store, you pay for it."
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The same communities disproportionately affected by Trump's polluter-backed agenda are losing the health care coverage they need to cope.
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The country, which has vast coal reserves, is Africa's top emissions polluter although it aims to diversify its energy mix.
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Regulations and permits started treating our wonderful small farmers and small businesses as if they were a major industrial polluter.
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"We are introducing rules so as to implement the user-pay and polluter-pay principles," Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc said.
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As the biggest carbon polluter in history, the U.S. largely owns this problem — therefore we must lead in the solution.
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The United States, after all, is the second biggest annual climate polluter, after China, and helped negotiate the Paris deal.
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If the world's second-largest polluter shirked its pledges to cut emissions, many other countries would wriggle out of theirs.
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To make the top polluter list, companies' total emissions were assessed, including emissions associated with the use of their products.
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Carman said that is "a big catch-all term" and may mean the polluter does not know what it released.
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American taxpayers shoulder an enormous financial burden from hardrock mining, our largest toxic polluter according to the Toxic Release Inventory.
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The worst impacts of Trump's polluter-friendly rollbacks are yet to come, but what we have seen already is scary.
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The United States is the biggest carbon polluter in history, and now ranks behind only China in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Some Republicans seem hellbent on putting polluter profits first, even when it means putting the rest of us at risk.
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And there's no question that it is simpler and more attention grabbing to call yourself out for being the second greatest polluter in the world than to label the textile dyeing and finishing industry "the No. 1 polluter of clean water (after agriculture)," as a report in the journal Natural Science did in 203.
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According to the World Economic Forum, if shipping was a country, it would be the sixth-largest polluter in the world.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The clothing industry is the second-largest polluter in the world, surpassed only by oil.
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These increase efficiency by raising the price of pollution, a harmful activity that, without intervention, comes too cheap for the polluter.
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Make no mistake — polluter lobbyists who have long fought to cut the EPA down to size will turn out in force.
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Almost every day brings new revelations of how Polluter Pruitt has polluted the integrity and honor of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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China, which is now the world's biggest climate polluter, vowed to slow the growth of its emissions and peak by 2030.
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The country is the world's largest polluter, and its problems could grow as people buy more cars and use more power.
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The American Polluter in Chief was kind enough to drop a little reminder into the State of the Union this week.
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State-owned Eskom, mired in financial crisis and struggling to meet demand, is the top polluter in Africa's most industrialised economy.
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What would it mean for the biggest carbon polluter in history to abandon the most ambitious effort to solve climate change?
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Neither the US, the largest historical emitter of climate pollution, nor China, the current biggest polluter, offered any new goals today.
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The long-awaited move puts the world's No. 1 polluter in a leading position on the issue as the U.S. retreats.
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And that means industries can't pollute as they see fit — which often leaves polluters, and polluter cheerleaders like Pruitt, crying foul.
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China has long been the world's largest polluter, producing almost double the amount of carbon dioxide than the world's second biggest polluter, the U.S. However, China has sought to lessen its over reliance on coal in recent years, and is looking to renewable energy by making huge investments in the research and deployment of solar and wind technologies.
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The apparel industry accounts for 10 percent of global carbon emissions and remains the second-largest industrial polluter, second only to oil.
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And if food waste were a country, it would be the third biggest greenhouse gas polluter on the planet, the FAO says.
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But the controversy around the plants helps illustrate just how tricky it will be to clean up the world's largest CO25 polluter.
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The exit would deliver a considerable blow to what needs to be a global agreement that includes the world's second biggest polluter.
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What Trump really loves is coal, which is the single biggest polluter in the US, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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If commercial aviation were a country, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation, it would be the seventh-largest carbon polluter.
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Koch Industries is the twentieth-largest greenhouse gas polluter in the country, and thus stands to be hurt by climate change regulation.
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Last year's cleanup was joined by over a million volunteers and plastic utensils were the fourth most-common polluter to be collected.
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In other situations the damage looks affordable by the polluter, especially if the cost is associated with policies like taxes or subsidies.
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The program's rules exist, lawyers said, to prevent a polluter from evading liability by using another company to stand in its place.
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Benchmarks include cutting greenhouse gas emissions 60 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, with Canada becoming a net-zero polluter by 2050.
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The burns at Radford, the single largest polluter in Virginia, have long been permitted based on analyses that showed they were safe.
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Eating less meat -- or going vegetarian -- uses less land (and is far better for the climate; beef is an especially big polluter). 3.
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The country is the world's largest economy and second greatest polluter, and losing its commitment to addressing the issue makes a significant difference.
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That is the surest path for polluter allies in Congress to end the gridlock and avoid a government shutdown over funding the government.
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The coal industry is responsible for 72 percent of toxic water contamination in the United States, making it the nation's largest water polluter.
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The facility, which critics claim will become the largest air polluter in western Pennsylvania, is being built in an area hungry for investment.
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China, now the world's largest polluter, has emerged as Europe's unlikely partner in this and other areas — underlining Trump's isolation on many issues.
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Almost every day, Polluter Pruitt finds new ways to support the degredation of the land, the air and the waters of the nation.
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With the textile industry being the second-largest polluter on the planet next to oil, there's always room for innovation of new materials.
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Starting in the 1990s, its emissions leapt, and by 2007 it had overtaken the United States as the world's biggest carbon dioxide polluter.
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Politics of record heat Meanwhile, it seems unlikely the world's second-biggest climate polluter, the Untied States, will shift away from fossil fuels soon.
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NUNEZ: No. It&aposs really actually the burden that -- I mean, the plastic straw is a gross polluter in every state of its existence.
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That makes the EU — the world's third biggest polluter — the first major industrial bloc to commit to climate neutrality under the Paris climate accords.
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That is primarily because of changes in China, the largest polluter, where an economic slowdown has coincided with a conscious effort to cut emissions.
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They are made by cutting out barium nitrate, a chief polluter, and using materials like zeolites, minerals that help absorb nitrogen and sulfur emissions.
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Based on a polluter-pays principle where developed countries that produced more emissions in the past should take the lead in fighting climate change.
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According to a 2015 report by Science journal, Indonesia is the world's second largest polluter of plastic marine waste in the world, behind only China.
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Based on a "polluter-pays" principle where developed countries which had produced more emissions in the past should take the lead in fighting climate change.
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London (CNN Business)A power station that used to be the biggest polluter in western Europe has made a near-complete switch to renewable energy.
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PLASTICS GALORE Japan, while not a major marine plastic polluter, is the world's No. 2 consumer of plastic packaging per person after the United States.
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A sharp tightening of environmental rules in the world's biggest polluter has the potential to be a shock, both to China and the global economy.
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Some major questions plague that case, however, including: Why is the United States liable and not China, which now is the biggest climate polluter annually?
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The world's third-largest carbon polluter, India, which emits about 7 percent of the world's emissions, has been unclear about its plans to sign on.
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As what the New York Times calls the biggest carbon polluter in history, the United States bears much of the responsibility for crop failures there.
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This isn't "back to basics" — it's a shift in the EPA's core mission that prioritizes polluter profits at the expense of the health of Americans.
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A video news report about the disaster included coverage of our newspaper's ties to the polluter through our institutional investor, and noted the growing controversy.
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At times, the government has ordered a polluter to pay for unrelated environmental restoration projects as restitution; the attorney general's order would prohibit such deals.
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This party could largely be Thwaites' undoing, as the U.S. is the second-biggest carbon emitter on Earth and the largest historical carbon polluter overall.
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The deal relies heavily on reductions in emissions by big polluter nations, and the United States is the world's second-biggest carbon dioxide emitter behind China.
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The fashion industry, while not the worst polluter, is notoriously hard on the environment, contributing an estimated 5 percent of the total global emissions every year.
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China, the world's largest polluter, has emerged as Europe's unlikely partner in this and other areas as Trump has isolated the United States on many issues.
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They include national vehicle tailpipe standards and the Obama-era Clean Power Plan to limit emissions from power plants, among others focused on major polluter industries.
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And though Ardern backs climate change efforts, New Zealand is locked into exploration deals with oil firms, while key polluter farming is crucial for its economy.
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For now, the main impact of the firings is the brazen message it sends about the agency's pro-polluter, anti-science priorities under President Donald Trump.
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Textile dyeing is the second-largest polluter of clean water, and on the whole, the apparel industry accounts for 10 percent of all greenhouse emissions worldwide.
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What makes this most outrageous is that it is offered to an industry that the Environmental Protection Agency has labeled as the nation's top toxic polluter.
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Textile dyeing is the world's second-largest polluter of water, since the water leftover from the dyeing process is often dumped into ditches, streams, or rivers.
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The Department of Environmental Conservation said the state had spent more than $25 million on Hoosick Falls, money it hopes to claw back from the polluter.
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Still, in their muddled and heavy-handed way, governments are groping towards the idea of making the polluter pay by internalising the cost of responsible waste disposal.
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Many fear that other countries' future pledges to cut greenhouse-gas emissions will be less ambitious without the world's second-largest polluter (after China) doing its share.
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This year the legislature has said it will clarify who is responsible for soil pollution in the past and codify into Chinese law the "polluter pays" principle.
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India' the world's fourth-largest polluter, is wary about signing onto the deal, fearing the commitments are too strict for a developing country with high energy needs.
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It grew a whole waste processing and recycling industry, but improper handling of trash and a lack of effective supervision turned the country into a major polluter.
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Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the court's Democratic appointees, asked Maui's attorney Elbert Lin why a polluter would not simply drop pollutants feet from the water's edge.
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If the plan is struck down, the United States, the world's largest carbon polluter over the centuries, will lose its main tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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In China, the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter, climate change officials said they intended to continue with plans to cut carbon emissions regardless of Mr. Trump's plans.
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Historically, the U.S. is by far the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, though China, with its burgeoning new coal plants, is now presently the greatest carbon polluter.
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Some progress is being made: The government, for the first time, is spending more than $21947 million to dissuade farmers from burning their fields — a major polluter.
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One of the newspaper's biggest institutional investors had become the largest shareholder in a company that was the world's biggest polluter, and the connection was drawing attention.
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"This report shows that the Trump administration rigged influential advisory boards to favor its polluter backers," Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, said in a statement.
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Like some other nations, China, the world's biggest polluter, has refused to accept international monitoring of its emissions and says it will provide data to outside observers.
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The exit of the world's largest economy and second-largest greenhouse gas polluter from the Paris accord would profoundly weaken the landmark effort to curb climate change.
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"In its haste to do favors for its polluter cronies, the Trump EPA has broken the law," Meleah Geertsma, a senior NRDC attorney, said in a statement.
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Categorized as a persistent organic polluter, endosulfan is on a list of 12 chemicals known as the "dirty dozen" that cause adverse effects on humans and the ecosystem.
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Trump also alleged that WOTUS targets "small farmers and small businesses as if they were a major industrial polluter," when farmers actually receive multiple exemptions under the regulation.
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The countries that remain committed to the 195-nation Paris agreement have little incentive to give a better deal to the United States, the world's second-biggest polluter.
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Because it is very, very difficult to trace an individual's death to a specific polluter, the polluters get off scot-free with killing thousands of people every year.
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Misinformation is coming from the top Of course, any conversation about this online pollution has to reckon with the president's role as the biggest polluter of them all.
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Electric vehicles could mitigate the health impact of air pollution, although these vehicles would draw power from a grid largely reliant on coal, which is itself a polluter.
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The Concorde was also a big polluter, burning two tons of fuel just taxiing and four times as much fuel per passenger as a Boeing 747 jumbo jet.
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It began decades ago, with wave after wave of deregulation and consolidation in the energy industry steadily building to the pro-polluter reality we see in Washington today.
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Arnott called for a levy to be placed on the tobacco industry on a "polluter pays principle," with money raised being spent on tobacco control measures and campaigns.
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The Trump administration in the United States, however, threatens to move the world's second-biggest climate polluter away from that agreement and back towards dirty, climate-warming fuels. 2.
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On top of being legally permitted to dump "food waste, cargo residue, cleaning waste, and animal carcasses" right into the water, cruises also a big air polluter as well.
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The country is the second-largest marine polluter after China, prompting Indonesia's government to commit US$1 billion a year to reduce its marine waste 70 percent by 2025.
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Other countries, from China, the world's biggest carbon polluter, to tiny Fiji — are moving to reduce carbon pollution in the realization that climate change is a grave global threat.
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Indonesia's plastic problem Indonesia is the second largest plastic polluter in the world after China -- its plastic waste accounts for a whopping 10 per cent of marine plastic pollution.
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As Britain's financial and service sectors grew and its coal mines, mills and steel factories closed, some of those industries went to China, which became the world's largest polluter.
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In Kyoto, Al Gore, who was then vice president, pledged that the United States, the world's largest carbon polluter at the time, would enact an ambitious climate change policy.
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"For the last 60 years, nurdles have been spilled into the ocean, but we don't know who the polluter has been or where the pollution has happened," she said.
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Those panels, dubbed "polluter panels" by environmental activists, are comprised of both government-appointed members and business representatives and have the power to review proposed environmental regulations and permits.
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It is a threat to justice that Swamp King Trump, instead of removing Polluter Pruitt from office, could even consider making him the attorney general of the United States.
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The United States is the second-biggest polluter behind China, and its potential exit has raised questions over whether the goals set by the agreement can still be met.
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India, the world's third-largest polluter, would essentially allow its emissions to triple by 2030 — an improvement, Indian officials say, from the sevenfold increase in emissions without any action.
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As the world's biggest polluter, China contributes 210% of the world's CO229 emissions annually, so the impact of this kind of drop is huge, even over a short period.
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The new ministry's mandate will include efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a pressing but contentious task in China, which is by far the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluter.
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That's a good thing — not just because a quiet flight free of the scent of jet fuel sounds delightful but also because the aviation industry is a big polluter.
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And because direct air capture cleans air that can't easily be traced to one polluter, the technology's use will likely need to be mandated by governments to become widespread.
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The Paris agreement was intended to bind the world community into battling rising temperatures in concert, and the departure of the Earth's second-largest polluter is a major blow.
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" To dramatize the unfairness of the agreement, Mr. Trump asserted that it allows China, the world's largest polluter, "to increase these emissions by a staggering number of years — 222.
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The smokestack is the center of a Supreme Court case heard this week, asking whether the neighbors can sue the polluter for the costs to clean up their properties.
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The new fuel economy standards for the auto industry would cut gas costs for drivers and clean up the transportation sector that is now this country's single largest polluter.
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Then I wrote Sustainable Food because I'd discovered that the growing, production, and transport of food is the second biggest climate polluter in Australia after coal-fired power stations.
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South Africa is Africa's worst polluter and one of the world's top 10 coal producers, with an estimated 3.5% of the world's coal resources, according to the International Energy Agency.
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Africa's most advanced economy is also its worst polluter, generating most of its energy from coal-fired power plants that emit millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Trump has maintained he is committed to taking the US out of the accord, which would severely weaken the agreement as the United States is the world's second-largest polluter.
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A host of countries -- from China to Germany -- have committed to stay with the Paris Agreement regardless of whether the United States, the world's second-largest annual polluter, dumps it.
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If the annual emissions from food waste—3.3 billion tonnes—were released by a single country, it would be the third-largest polluter in the world (after China and America).
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The EU ETS is the most developed system of charging polluters for emissions, although China, the world's biggest polluter, expects the first trade on a national emissions scheme next year.
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The absence of the world's largest economy and second-largest greenhouse gas polluter would cripple the first accord binding nearly every country to actions that would reduce planet-warming pollution.
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Instead, the American presidential election has taken center stage, and China, the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter, is poised to step forward as the world's new leader in climate diplomacy.
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The second is that Polluter Pruitt is one of the leading candidates for the dubious honor of being the worst official to serve in any administration in modern American history.
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Hillary Clinton supports a climate plan that costs our economy $217 trillion, while China—the world's largest polluter—actually continues to increase its emissions for at least 14 more years.
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Some of the plans that were already submitted, such as those of the United States, the world's second-largest greenhouse polluter, have hard targets backed up with detailed policy pledges.
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"It's absurd for President Trump to claim any environmental credentials when his administration continues to drive a destructive pro-polluter agenda at the expense of the American people," she said.
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Trump administration regulators have acted on many of RSC's polluter-friendly ideas, such as reducing the costs attributed to greenhouse gases and raising the bar for new energy efficiency standards.
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With his order to move forward with the rollback, climate diplomats around the world maneuvered to fill the vacuum left by the exit of the globe's second-biggest climate polluter.
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An EPA spokeswoman said there had been a decline in polluter penalties since the presidency of George W. Bush and the agency's enforcement work was reliant on efforts by previous administrations.
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The stark symbol of an era when coal was king, Hazelwood was one of Australia's dirtiest: its fuel was the Latrobe valley's brown coal, a bigger polluter than the black sort.
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That's unfortunate, because odds are high that your favorite puffy jacket will end its life in a trash heap: Second to oil, the fashion industry is the largest polluter on earth.
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If the world's second largest polluter, responsible for 15.9% of the world's carbon emissions per capita, drastically reduced its carbon footprint, researchers say it would have some impact on the environment.
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"In its haste to do favors for its polluter cronies, the Trump EPA has broken the law," Meleah Geertsma, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.
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BEIJING — A court in eastern China has sided with the prosecutors suing a local environmental agency for failing to adequately punish an industrial polluter, according to the country's top prosecuting agency.
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She traded in her Jetta for a Subaru Forester — taking a loss, she says — soon after she found out that her Volkswagen had been a worse polluter than she had imagined.
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YEAR-END DEADLINE The other members of the group of industrialized nations - including the biggest polluter, China - reaffirmed their commitment to implementing the Paris deal, taking into account their national circumstances.
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The federal court charged with considering the polluter-backed lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan recently announced that arguments in this case will be heard before the full court without delay.
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A recent University of Massachusetts study demonstrated that a modest polluter fee starting at $35 per ton of greenhouse gas emissions could generate about $7 billion in state revenue every year.
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You could sue a polluter (for polluting) or a government agency (for neglecting its regulatory duties), but even if you won, the damages would be too small to be a deterrent.
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The rule was the centerpiece of Obama's strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and show the rest of the world that the U.S., a top polluter, is committed to climate action.
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During a tour of Hebei province, China's biggest steel producing region as well as its biggest polluter, inspectors found that local steel firms had illegally expanded capacity and engaged in "fraudulent practices".
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In Southern California, regional officials want to control emissions from cargo trucks by regulating the warehouses that they serve — taking aim at a sector, transportation, that remains the state's single largest polluter.
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While it is difficult to know what precisely is being burned where, research published earlier this year suggested that emissions from China, the world's largest polluter, may even have reached a zenith.
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Supermarkets should be forced to cut down on plastics immediately and corporations bound by law to a "polluter pays principle," which sees them having to take responsibility for the waste they create.
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Without the full participation of the United States, the world's second-largest greenhouse gas polluter, after China, that goal is probably unattainable, even if every other country follows through on its pledges.
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"It's like a polluter who wants to dump toxic waste in a river and is happy to take home a profit but thinks they don't have to pay for cleanup," he added.
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This may create more carbon emissions in places, but at least the U.S. — the second biggest carbon emitter on Earth and the largest historical carbon polluter overall — can dramatically do its part.
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In the US — the second biggest greenhouse gas polluter in the world — cities, counties, and states have stepped up their efforts on climate change while President Trump has rolled back environmental protections.
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China accounts for over two-thirds of total emerging market green issuance and a fifth of the global tally, even though it is classed as the world's bigger polluter by carbon emissions.
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Renewable energy makes up only about 85033 percent of the island's electricity generation, while 47 percent comes from petroleum, which is a heavy polluter and is costly because it is shipped in.
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Kyoto imposed binding greenhouse-gas emissions cuts on rich countries but not on fast-growing developing ones, such as China, which overtook America to become the world's biggest polluter only six years later.
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The EU pledged to team up with China, the world's largest polluter, to achieve the goal of limiting global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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"With this reckless proposed loophole, the Trump Administration is siding with the worst actors in the oil and gas industry and is putting polluter profits ahead of the lives of Americans," he said.
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And after Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate agreement in 2017, Xi said China would take the lead in combating climate change, even though China is the world's largest carbon polluter.
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Schierenbeck told Reuters last week that the group planned to significantly slash its CO2 emissions, which stood at 59.5 million metric tonnes in 2018, half that of larger peer RWE, Europe's biggest polluter.
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President Xi Jinping of China, the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter, has promised that his country will move ahead with steps to curb climate change, regardless of what happens in the United States.
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If Harris is elected, her plan promises to follow that same prosecutorial path, increasing penalties for companies that violate federal pollution laws and restoring the "polluter pays" model for funding the Superfund program.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Green groups have urged Norway's $1 trillion wealth fund to sell its small stake in German power firm RWE, saying the company is a heavy polluter due to its coal-fired plants.
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China's the world's biggest carbon polluter — it pumped more climate-heating greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the U.S. and the European Union combined last year, according to data from the Global Carbon Project.
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For too long, the museum has sided with its mega-polluter partner rather than the communities it is meant to represent, many of whom are already experiencing the intensifying impacts of our changing climate.
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But given the beauty industry is itself a large polluter, are the companies selling products that promise to protect our skin and hair from pollution doing enough to address their role in creating it?
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The state set up a polluter fee fund from its cap-and-trade program that provided financial aid for dairy operators to buy the technology that can trap the methane gas and produce electricity.
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In Point Comfort, just around 100 miles north of Padre Island, residents have sued Formosa Plastics, a known nurdle polluter, for violating the Clean Water Act and its Texas Commission on Environmental Quality permit.
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A recent report published by Greenpeace called Coca-Cola "the most prolific polluter" compared to other top brands because in a series of global beach cleanups, Coca-Cola branded packages were collected the most.
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Amazon is a mega-polluter, and although Bezos has lately pledged to decrease its carbon footprint in response to pressure from inside and outside the company, there's a whole lot more he could do.
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Per capita, Dubai belches out just shy of 853 tonnes of carbon emissions a year, making it a top-five polluter by that metric and worse than the United States, Australia, Russia and China.
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Alberta, home to Canada's oil sands and the country's biggest polluter, plans to introduce an economy-wide carbon tax in 2017, while Ontario will soon join Quebec in having a carbon cap-and-trade regime.
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An article in the British Medical Journal called for a "polluter-pays" tax on new stoves, to equal the associated health costs, which it put at £889 ($1,150) per stove each year in inner London.
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The "polluter pays" policy makes companies put down a deposit if their production revenues are deemed insufficient to cover the estimated cost of cleaning up their oil wells at the end of their producing life.
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"Once again, the Trump administration is putting the health of polluter balance sheets over the health of our families and children," said Mary Anne Hitt, director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, in a statement.
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"Having waited in many cases more than 70 years for the polluter to take care of cleaning up or paying for such operations, Greenland is losing patience with changing Danish governments' vague responses," it said.
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China, which is the biggest polluter in the world and shows no sign of changing its dirty ways, holds a "get out of jail free" card because Beijing is judged by words rather than actions.
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President Xi Jinping of China, the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter, has vowed repeatedly to move ahead with steps in his country to curb climate-altering pollution regardless of what happens in the United States.
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The idea of the world's second-biggest polluter free-riding on the efforts of others has some countries mulling counter-attacks—one proposal, a carbon tariff on American exports, could lead to a damaging trade war.
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China overtook the US as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses nearly a decade ago -- but in the developed world, the US is still the worst carbon polluter per capita, according to the World Bank.
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Our newsroom was covering the disaster aggressively, activists were planning to picket outside our annual shareholder meeting and, somehow, the polluter claimed we were blocking its requests to run a full-page ad in the paper.
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The country is both a major polluter and at major potential risk from climate change, and its leaders have invested heavily in geoengineering research alongside renewable energy and slowly moving away from China's dependency on coal.
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Yet we never think about its depletion of the earth's resources, the pollution it causes (it's the biggest polluter after oil and mining), or, most important, the people at the very bottom of the supply chain.
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The searing image of the emaciated flesh-footed shearwater with its stomach bulging with plastic, 175 pieces to be exact, screams out that the animal kingdom's number one filthiest animal is the biggest polluter on the planet.
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South Africa, the continent's worst polluter and most advanced economy, emits millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, much of it from coal-fired power plants that still provide most of its energy.
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A loophole created by a pair of polluter-driven lawsuits that went to the U.S. Supreme Court for years left nearly 2 million miles of streams across the country without guaranteed coverage under the Clean Water Act.
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It's sad that America is such a large polluter, but it's even more embarrassing that the Trump Administration has decided to kick back and do nothing while other countries contribute to the global effort against Climate Change.
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For example, Scott Pruitt, the pollution- and polluter-friendly head of the Environmental Protection Agency, says that now is not the time to bring up the subject — that doing so is "insensitive" to the people of Florida.
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BRUSSELS — The European Commission introduced on Wednesday its centerpiece climate strategy that, if approved, would pivot the world's third-biggest polluter to climate-friendly economic policies and nudge coal-reliant nations with payouts worth billions of euros.
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But central and local governments have continued to bear the entire cost burden for crucial water treatment and transmission infrastructure, and China is still struggling to implement an effective "polluter pays" system for handling waste, the official added.
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As China, the world's largest polluter, gets richer, it is essential that it plays its part in paying for mitigation and adaptation to global warming, says Leonardo Martinez-Diaz of the World Resources Institute, a global research body.
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"Trump is responsible for the most serious attacks on clean air by any president ever, and his tweets will do nothing to prevent kids from getting sick from his big polluter handouts and clean air rollbacks," he said.
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But we may not survive the full scale assault by his administration on the science of climate disruption, an assault designed to enrich polluter profits today at the expense of the health and environment of our children tomorrow.
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The more detailed plan put forth by China, the world's largest polluter, calls for Chinese emissions to drop — but only after 2030 — and for China to put a national cap-and-trade system in place starting in 2017.
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This problem has a defined scope (the amount of gas released), it was something that wasn't supposed to happen, and there's a specific solution (fixing the pipe, and if negligence is found, making the polluter pay a fine).
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Tata Steel, the largest corporate polluter in the Netherlands, proposed that it would build a 500-million-euro ($560 million) energy-efficient alternative to its blast furnace at its plant near Amsterdam using newly developed technology, Henrar told Reuters.
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Southeast Asia is a major contributor to land-based plastic waste leaking into the world's oceans, with more than half of it coming from four nations - Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand - along with China, the top single polluter.
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The world's second-most populous country and third-biggest polluter has about 74 GW of renewable energy currently installed, according to a government report and comments made last month by Anand Kumar, the secretary of the renewable energy ministry.
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Emissions in the United States, the second-largest polluter after China, have also been relatively flat, but Mr. Trump has started tearing up President Barack Obama's climate policies, raising the possibility that greenhouse gases could rise in coming years.
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"With the top global polluter enacting policies to support the Paris Agreement and transition to a low carbon economy, it is clear that we're at a tipping point in the climate crisis," said former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
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It's already found itself in the unique position of being lectured on the topic by China, the world's other major polluter, who President-elect Trump famously declared "created" global warming as a hoax to give the U.S. an unfair trade advantage.
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"If the Michigan [environmental agency] wants to issue a new drinking water standard they're going to have to get it cleared by this 'polluter panel' now," said Erik Olson, senior director for health and food at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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The EU, the world's third-largest emitter, has pledged to team up with China, world's largest polluter, to defend the Paris climate pact's goal of limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
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Developed in line with the polluter pays principle, the proposed carbon tax bill includes staggered increases and tax breaks in the early years, allowing companies to pay six rand to 48 rand per tonne in the first phase, National Treasury said.
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"We've repeatedly asked DOE for information to ensure reality and science are coming before polluter politics, but we have only been met with delays and secrecy," Mary Anne Hitt, the director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, said in a statement.
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But there would be no legal consequence if the United States, the world's second-largest greenhouse gas polluter, simply did not follow through with the Obama administration's pledge to cut emissions up to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.
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After the portrait was unveiled, the group screened a short video of Wenda and performed a mini "awards ceremony" presenting prizes for "biggest hypocrite" and "biggest polluter" to the "Director of the National Portrait Gallery" and a "BP representative" respectively.
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Connecting to nature IRL: Today is World Environment Day, and being an active advocate for the environment is needed now more now than ever, especially given the world's biggest polluter (the United States) plans to depart from the Paris climate agreements.
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Our company's reputation was careening out of control, and we had no idea how to stop the damage — or slow the seemingly endless torrent of social media posts that were berating us for our ties to the world's largest polluter.
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After Mr. Trump pulled out of the Paris climate accord this month, the European Union said it would work with China, the world's largest polluter, to achieve the accord's chief target: keeping global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius.
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Devon's pushback, coming amid an effort to ease a broad array of federal environmental rules, is the first known example under the Trump administration of an accused polluter — which has admitted violating the law — backing away from a proposed environmental settlement.
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Just days before, Florida lawmakers had endorsed a bill to drastically weaken pollution regulations—the result of an extraordinary lobbying blitz by the sugar industry, the largest polluter in the Everglades and one of the largest political donors in the state.
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Many governments are now trying to cut their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2250 Paris climate agreement, though U.S. President Donald Trump has weakened the pact by saying the United States, the world's second biggest greenhouse gas polluter after China, will pull out.
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According to a recent report in Science, which cites the work of Richard Heede, principal of Climate Mitigation Services, ExxonMobil was responsible for 555 million metric tons of CO2 entering the atmosphere in 2013, making it the fourth-biggest polluter that year.
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"The Trump administration is simply trying to payback its polluter cronies by gutting sound science that our health and environmental protections rely on," Neil Gormley, an attorney with Earthjustice, wrote in a statement announcing the appeal filed in the D.C. Circuit Court.
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Despite its talk of being a leader in fighting global warming, China, the world's biggest polluter, has refused to accept international monitoring of its emissions, and conflicting data about the country's energy use has raised questions about the accuracy of its reporting.
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Much like the dramatic unveiling of Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court, the announcement that the United States — the world's biggest carbon polluter — would leave a historic climate pact was a moment of serious consequence, shrouded in a layer of entertainment.
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Indeed, insofar as a commitment to the "end of externalities" and the polluter pays principle means that those causing harms to society should pay for their negative externalities, it also implies that those delivering positive externalities—benefits to society—should be compensated.
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"Kevin Cramer has consistently backed reckless and dangerous schemes to put the profits of fossil fuel executives before the health of the public, so he and Trump are a match made in polluter heaven," Sierra Club Legislative Director Melinda Pierce said in an emailed statement.
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Cow dung is a huge polluter of methane, and some of the only ways to get rid of it is to burn it (for fuel), or go through a toxic anaerobic respiration process in manure lagoons (Google it, but on an empty stomach, please).
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China is the world's biggest polluter, producing almost twice as much CO2 as the U.S. At the same time, the U.S. economy is more than 60 percent bigger than China's, so the U.S. is running a much cleaner economy on a per dollar basis.
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Unfortunately, the world is less than sane, and a speech on tax policy in the literal shadow of an oil refinery is the clearest indication yet that Trump and the GOP have zero interest in generating revenue from clamping down on polluter tax cuts.
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The criteria do not rule out any sector from green labelling, EU documents show, a compromise that aims to allay concerns of countries such as France, which relies on nuclear energy, and east European nations, which still depend heavily on coal, a major polluter.
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The researchers found that Puerto Rico's power authority was by far the biggest polluter in its E.P.A. region (which includes New York and New Jersey), spewing an estimated 100 million pounds of sulfur dioxide mist over Cataño and other communities in the shadow of its smokestacks.
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In competing against coal, which supplies some 64 percent of the country's energy needs and is the main contributor to carbon emissions and air pollution, the government should make the polluter pay a higher cost, either by pricing carbon or implementing a carbon tax, said IGU's Ydreos.
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"Even as the state takes bold action to fight climate change, Californians still need Congress to stop blocking climate action and supporting pro-polluter policies that make global warming worse," said Pete Maysmith, senior vice president for campaigns at the group, which is LCV's super PAC arm.
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"Even as the state takes bold action to fight climate change, Californians still need Congress to stop blocking climate action and supporting pro-polluter policies that make global warming worse," said Pete Maysmith, senior vice president for campaigns at the group, which is LCV's super PAC arm.
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NY Renews, a coalition of 140 environmental, labor and community groups across New York State, has been developing a proposal — likely to be introduced in Albany this year — to invest in job-creating clean energy and resiliency projects for coastal communities, using revenue from a polluter fee.
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You, the polluter in this example, pay to "either pull carbon out of the atmosphere or prevent the release of carbon that would have otherwise gone into the atmosphere," said Ted Martens, vice president of marketing and sustainability at Natural Habitat Adventures, a carbon-neutral travel company.
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A possible solution is to turn the principle to a sort of 'polluter rebuilds' principle, in which damage can only be rectified by a large investment to recover what was lost and to expand the injured area (for example, if it was a forest, to reforest more).
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While the president cannot, as Mr. Trump suggested, unilaterally undo a 194-nation accord that has already been legally ratified, he could initiate the four-year process to withdraw the world's largest economy and second-largest climate polluter from the first worldwide deal to tackle global warming.
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The exit of the United States, the world's largest economy and second-largest greenhouse gas polluter, would not dissolve the 195-nation pact, which was legally ratified last year, but it could set off a cascade of events that would have profound effects on the planet.
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Republican lawmakers who insist on making this issue a quid pro quo are likely doing so not out of concern for the lives, families and communities torn apart by our broken system, but rather to please white-collar and corporate polluter interests who stand to gain the most.
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"Its absurd for President Trump to claim any environmental credentials when his administration continues to drive a destructive pro-polluter agenda at the expense of the American people," said Jill Tauber, vice president of litigation, climate and energy at Earthjustice, which has filed 120 lawsuits against the administration.
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At a conference on Friday of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Washington, Charles F. Bolden Jr., the NASA administrator, announced plans for an all-electric airplane designated as X-2175, part of the agency's efforts to make aviation more efficient and less of a polluter.
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Big corporations are feeling public pressure to go green, and in turn they're pushing back hard on recalcitrant states: Google recently used its plans to build a data center in North Carolina to pressure Duke Energy, a notorious polluter, into providing the company with vast amounts of solar power.
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A total of 8 percent of the world's total carbon footprint now comes from the apparel industry, and apparel is the second largest polluter of fresh water globally (we already know how water-intensive a simple cotton T-shirt is — using thousands of gallons of precious potable water).
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"It's absurd for President Trump to claim any environmental credentials when his administration continues to drive a destructive pro-polluter agenda at the expense of the American people," said Jill Tauber, vice president of litigation, climate and energy at Earthjustice, which has filed 120 lawsuits against the administration.
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The commercial aviation sector accounts for around 22018 percent of global carbon emissions and while that may not sound like much, if the aviation sector were a country, it'd be the seventh largest polluter in the world (yet would only be home to 22024 percent of the global population).
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I agree with the members of the CLC that we desperately need a price on carbon to adequately address climate change and that some kind of market mechanism is an appropriate way for the polluter to compensate the rest of us (and the planet!) for their carbon footprints.
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"This is an immoral and an illegal attack on clean air, clean energy, and the health of the public, and it shows just how heartless the Trump administration is when it comes to appeasing its polluter allies," said Michael Brune, head of the U.S. environmental group Sierra Club.
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China is such a huge industrial polluter that even a temporary dip like this is significant: The three-week decline is roughly equal to the amount of carbon dioxide that the state of New York puts out in a full year (about 150 million metric tons) Mr. Myllyvirta estimated.
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Donald Trump is lining up a number of Cabinet appointees who deny or ignore basic realities of climate science and whose policies could push this country -- already the world's second-biggest climate polluter -- back into the dirty fossil fuel era at exactly a time when science seems to mandate the opposite.
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To understand just how devastating such a rollback to core environmental law would be, we need only consider what the world was like before NEPA existed, a world where leafleting, picketing, and demonstrating were the dominant set of tools communities had to fight back against unwelcome, unwise and polluter-friendly development.
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During the campaign, the president-elect of the world's second largest polluter claimed that climate change is a hoax, threatened to drop the Paris accord, committed to kill the Clean Power Plan at the center of President Obama's emissions reduction strategy, and promised a new dawn for the fossil fuel industry.
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"Formosa is a serial polluter," she said, pointing to a court settlement reached by Formosa Plastics in Texas, where the company agreed to tighter wastewater discharge standards and to pay $50 million to settle allegations that the company has spilled tons of plastic pellets into waterways near the Gulf of Mexico.
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For one thing, China, the world's most populous country and the largest carbon polluter, is well on track to meet the commitments it made under the Paris climate accord — the global agreement designed to curb the worst effects of climate change — which the United States has said it is leaving.
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This comes after years of dragging its feet on addressing its fossil fuel investments: BlackRock has not only profited from being the largest investor in coal worldwide (companies and mines), but blocked attempts by its polluter investments to create meager emissions targets or even create "scenario planning" for climate change.
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The greens are asking the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to step in immediately and block the EPA from halting the rule "In its haste to do favors for its polluter cronies, the Trump EPA has broken the law," Meleah Geertsma, a senior NRDC attorney, said in a statement.
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Mayors, governors, corporate executives and environmental activists from four continents are gathering in San Francisco this week to show what they can do to stave off the most catastrophic effects of climate change, even if the president of the world's most powerful country — the United States, which is also history's biggest polluter — won't.
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"Make no mistake, Gardner is a creature of the polluter class that has shown time and time again that he will quickly sacrifice vital protections for families living in coal impacted communities to help greedy executives make their coal companies more profitable," said Bill Price, the senior organizing representative for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign in Appalachia.
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Others questioned why the company only tested its smokestacks every three years, why the sulfur dioxide couldn't be captured, why the public comment period was so short, why an egregious polluter like Oxbow had been grandfathered into lax enforcement, why TCEQ should be trusted at all when it didn't have any monitors who looked like Port Arthur residents.
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"You can imagine that, if all a polluter needs to do to get out of the Clean Water Act is to pull its pipe five feet back from a river or lake, then it can dump as many pollutants as it wants without any permit or oversight, that would be absolutely devastating to our nation's waters," Henkin said.
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According to the New York Times, the batch of emails obtained by the Sierra Club also shows that Pruitt probably entertained the idea of giving a job to a friend of J. Steven Hart, a DC lobbyist who represented notorious polluter Smithfield Foods and whose wife also happened to be renting Pruitt out an apartment at way below market rate.
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Image: US Fish and Wildlife Service / Flickr Creative CommonsLast week was a sad one for the planet, but buried beneath headlines of the history's largest carbon polluter telling everyone else to piss off, a team of researchers issued a more hopeful message: Coral reefs, a poster child for impacts of climate change, may not be as doomed as we think.
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"As independent analysts, we don't endorse candidates, but the data and analysis clearly show that energy policy and the resulting emissions will go in very different directions under Clinton and Trump," said Lux research analyst Yuan-Sheng Yu. 'Instability' The US is the world's second-largest greenhouse gas polluter after China and withdrawing from the Paris Agreement would leave the rest of the world facing a losing battle.
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There's the guarantee that 40 percent of all new federal clean energy investments will go to frontline communities, the "polluter pays" fees on big polluters, the huge push for building and efficiency upgrades in frontline communities, using federal procurement to steer business to women- and minority-owned businesses, creating a fund to help energy workers with the transition away from fossil fuel economies — all that stuff was scattered through the previous plans.
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But if the U.S. — the world's largest producer of crude oil and exporter of natural gas — fails to take bold enough responsibility for stabilizing the climate, other nations might not feel responsible for dramatically decarbonizing their economies (in line for what's needed to curb warming below 2 degrees C). "If we, the greatest historic polluter, are unwilling to take leadership, why should China?" asked Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State University.
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But according to the paper, one key issue is Pruitt's relationship with a lobbyist, Stephen J. Hart, whose spouse rented him out the $50-a-night condo in DC. Hart worked for notorious polluter Smithfield Foods, and Minoli seems to have reversed his prior position and now seems quite interested in whether Pruitt arranged some kind of quid pro quo:In March, Mr. Minoli defended Mr. Pruitt's lease for the condo, saying that Mr. Pruitt paid what appeared to be fair market value.
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When Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE announced that he was pulling the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, the world let out a collective gasp and many countries defiantly pronounced that climate action would continue even in the absence of the world's largest historic polluter.
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I had a look at the systems they are using to detect bots, trolls, and misinformation and how they are trying to get ahead of it all... Read on... >> The Dems have help from some former Facebook employees, including Nell Thomas, the DNC's new CTO, who said FB's focus on engagement numbers creates "blind spots" for FB staff when thinking of the long-term effects of their platforms... >> On refusing to fact-check politicians' ads and leaving the doctored Pelosi video on its platform, Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager, said FB is like a "polluter who wants to dump toxic waste in a river and is happy to take home a profit but thinks they don't have to pay for cleanup..." "The most powerful person in the country is a disinformation agent" Donie adds: But as much work the Democrats can do in fighting bots and trolls, one official here acknowledged to me the bigger problem is in the White House.
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