But as climate change and weather disasters fuelled by oil companies' pollution hit with increasing severity, ever more people will be open to the idea.
Voters who cast ballots in the midterm elections overwhelmingly support giving unemployed Americans green jobs and charging companies pollution fees for greenhouse gases, a new poll found.
One, in December 2017, instructs state and federal regulators not to second-guess companies' pollution estimates, which determine whether they must apply for permits.
Two years ago, an Ecuadorean court in Lago Agrio, an Amazon town, imposed a colossal $19 billion fine on the company over pollution allegedly caused in the 1970s and 1980s by Texaco, bought by Chevron in 2001.
But in the remote village of Nathkuva adjacent to Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited's coolant gas plant, "environmental groups and residents have been at loggerheads with the company over pollution since it opened in 1989".
But in this remote village adjacent to Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited's coolant gas plant, environmental groups and residents have been at loggerheads with the company over pollution since it opened in 1989.
A Company's Pollution The paper factory is located on Lake Baikal, the world's oldest and deepest lake, which is home to hundreds of species that exist nowhere else, including a freshwater seal.
The EPA will impose on the company a pollution reduction program which could include upgrades to the mine's water treatment facilities and management of the mine water discharge, including tighter limits for nickel and zinc, for example.
London law firm Leigh Day has issued proceedings in the high court in London on behalf of 1,800 people who claim to have been affected by the company's pollution.
Disclosure of the report adds fuel to charges from Indonesian officials who say they intend to prosecute the company for pollution and accusations that Newmont willfully flouted environmental safeguards.
