While Congressional challenges, legal hurdles and deliberate obfuscation of the issues by the vested interests of the power sector are still stumbling blocks to the successful implementation of these proposed new rules, never before has any White House staked as much on fighting the ravages of pollution on our climate.
Lots of organizations are already in place, fighting the good fight against pollution and ocean injustice.
Perhaps (as the scholar Heinrich von Staden suggests) they thought that the womb was polluted, and so employed the ritual technique of fighting pollution with pollution, in an early version of homeopathy.
WASHINGTON — As a corporate lawyer, William L. Wehrum worked for the better part of a decade to weaken air pollution rules by fighting the Environmental Protection Agency in court on behalf of chemical manufacturers, refineries, oil drillers and coal-burning power plants.
If Pruitt is confirmed, it could mean the EPA stops fighting the suits, including a challenge to the Clean Power Plan, which sets pollution standards for power plants and statewide goals for cutting carbon pollution.
The Metropolitan Museum Historic District Coalition, a group of neighbors, has been fighting the museum's expansion since 2002, saying it would increase traffic and pollution by drawing more visitors.
"If London knuckles down and cracks the diesel problem, it could be leading the world fighting air pollution as it did 60 years ago after the great smog".
But as attention and pressure mounts, the Chinese government has responded; it is now devoting $275 billion (roughly the GDP of Hong Kong) to fighting air pollution over the next five years.
In the interest of fighting noise pollution and allowing viewers at least a chance at forming intelligent thoughts, tennis commentators worldwide sign a binding agreement to embrace occasional silence, which can often speak volumes.
The benefits of fighting air pollution can be enormous.
