Right now, no one is really accountable for air pollution in the government.
"Moves by intergovernmental bodies and investors suggest that they could soon be made more financially accountable for the pollution they cause".
The other group whose complaints got attention were Southern California water utilities, which would be held accountable for the pollution associated with the energy it takes to get water to them from distant parts of the state.
Moreover, Israel is held accountable for the pollution of surface and ground waters because of its deliberate neglect of developing the infrastructures in the West Bank as well as in the Gaza Strip throughout its years of occupation.
Vote for BP and hold them accountable for their pollution.
With environmentalists pushing to hold oil companies accountable for their pollution, corporations like Chevron would be forced to spend millions of dollars to make their oil and natural gas drilling operations and oil refineries cleaner and safer.
They're common-sense measures trying to have the coal-mining companies be accountable for devastation and pollution, rather than just business as usual".
First, he must follow through and build on one of the biggest accomplishments of his first term: Holding polluters accountable for the costs of their pollution to our health, to our economy, and to our climate.
As we face the greatest environmental threat in history, global warming, many want to challenge the EPA's current authority to hold corporate polluters accountable for their contribution to the carbon pollution causing the climate crisis.
"With today's filing, we take an important step to protect public health by seeking to hold Volkswagen accountable for any unlawful air pollution," Cynthia Giles, a administrator with the EPA's office of enforcement and compliance assurance, said in the statement.
