Last week, he staged a Texas-style barbecue in front of the Capitol in Sacramento "to defend California's environment from Texas polluters".
The environment minister pledged "the polluter will pay", and the government would investigate to see who had been responsible for the disaster and to recover the £1m the operation was expected to cost.
In Washington, though, the greatest threat to our environment is the big polluter agenda being pushed by the Republican leadership in Congress.
The oil polluter continues polluting.
"Secretary Perry's proposed rule was but another in a long list of actions by the Trump administration that defy the facts to appease the polluter lobby," said Environment New York Director Heather Leibowitz.
Mr. Gatto's role will be assessing threats to the environment, whether from terrorists or polluters, Mr. Rehm said.
Bold is going out and making sure that we have a clean environment by taking on corporate polluters.
Yes: they signal to polluters that the environment is valuable, and a tax system that includes them will distort economic activity less than one that does not.
But in a conference call with reporters, Judith A. Enck, the E.P.A. administrator for the region, said the Superfund designation would guarantee the best result for residents and the environment and ensure that the polluters cover all the costs.
