The phrase "a big polluter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an entity, such as a company or country, that significantly contributes to pollution.
Example: "The factory was labeled as a big polluter due to its harmful emissions affecting the local environment."
Alternatives: "a major polluter" or "a significant polluter".
Garnault said that the upcoming WA senate repeat election was "a crucial vote not just for Australia but for the world", because Australia is such a big polluter and the senate balance so precarious.
Everyone knows China is a big polluter, but compared to the U.S. and Canada it is nowhere close per person and now we find Chinese companies combating the threat of global warming.
Not bad if you're a big polluter.
If any climate-change treaty is to work, it needs co-operation from all big polluters.
"I stand with the governments calling for an end to big polluter conflicts of interest at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change," the petition reads.
A huge proportion of this cash is coming from the massive bank accounts of a few big polluters.
It's a big air polluter too.
But the measures they propose are not those needed most; and they may even diminish further the chances of a treaty, since big polluters can now claim that such a thing is unnecessary.Many of the American and Chinese moves are of the command-and-control variety a ceiling on emissions here, a regulation of polluting activities there.
European governments handed out emissions permits to existing power plants and factories free of charge; that turned out to be a windfall for big polluters, who were able to sell on unneeded permits for huge profits.
One of the centrepieces of his election campaign was a promise to axe a "carbon tax" on big polluters, introduced by one of his Labor party predecessors, Julia Gillard.
It needs a market-based limit on carbon emissions by big polluters, a renewable energy target and huge investment in clean energy, and it needs a plan to close coal-fired power stations in an orderly way.
