The oil polluter continues polluting.
The groups, led by the League of Conservation Voters, accused Ms. Norton of having failed to take action against corporate polluters while attorney general in Colorado.
Other pollution laws blame the polluter.
Carbon offsets are attractive to polluters because they are, in general, a cheaper price to pay than actual cuts or traded emissions.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has already come to the polluters' aid by suing to block the rule, but U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (D-Ohio) still has the chance to side with our rivers and lakes.
As attorney general of Connecticut, he took on the big polluters to clean up toxic waste.
They argue that the tax would guarantee a reliable funding stream and that using general revenues for the orphan fund undercuts the basic "polluter pays" principle.
In his speeches, Mr. Gore attacked "big oil," "the pharmaceutical companies," "big polluters" -- in short, corporate America in general.
Is Faulted on Air Rules The inspector general of the E.P.A. said legal actions against major polluters had stalled because of the agency's decision to revise rules on emissions at older coal-fired power plants.
As part of a general industrial policy to push energy guzzlers and big polluters out of business, the central government wants to cut the number of cement suppliers to 3,000 by 2010, says Jay Zhou, who follows the industry at SinoPac Securities in Shanghai.
He even dismantled the unit within the state Attorney General's Office charged with enforcing environmental protections against polluters.
