The plant would burn coal — normally a huge polluter — but 90 percent of the carbon dioxide would be removed and piped 250 miles, or 400 kilometers, to the North Sea.
"It shouldn't come as a surprise that you are going to make a little bit less if you're not investing in a huge polluter like Exxon Mobil," she says.
"Walt Disney was a genius, but he was also a huge pollution for the world, in the way that all great geniuses are always polluters.
These huge climate polluters will contribute to severe environmental, human health and human rights impacts, while failing to address the energy needs of the poor.
In Abdulaziz's images, there are fishermen and poachers, conservationists and polluters, huge transport ships and tiny sampans as slender and slight as river reeds.
"If they knew that victims might claim compensation, that would bring huge pressure on polluters, who would have to start paying a price for their actions," Mr. Wang said.
The strategy would rely on the filing of huge lawsuits against polluters as an alternative to the enforcement of federal regulations and would borrow heavily from the legal tactics honed in the tobacco wars.
"This is a huge win for corporate polluters and huge loss for public health".
"There are no victimless crimes," he concludes, meaning that there are huge public costs when polluters, defense contractors and the Business Roundtable control environmental policies, armament policies and tax policies by their lush campaign contributions.
Not surprisingly, huge amounts are coming from polluter-backed groups, which promoted a dirty fuels agenda by spending more than $270 million on television ads in the last two months of the 2012 election cycle.
