Sentence examples for major polluter from inspiring English sources
The Clean Water Act was intended to end dangerous water pollution by regulating every major polluter.
But it has also been a major polluter, and a litigious one as well.
The electronics industry has been a major polluter, from the manufacturing end to the landfill.
Despite their efforts to disguise mass incineration as "waste to energy" (letter, Oct. 24), it is a major polluter.
The cost of carbon is far too low to force electric utilities in Europe to switch from burning coal, a major polluter, to much cleaner natural gas.
Another major polluter was Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp. in Toms River, once Ocean County's biggest employer and now one of New Jersey's most thorny and costly Superfund sites.
Whereas president Obama proposes to significantly reduce carbon pollution emissions from power stations and achieve a 17percentt economy wide reduction in carbon emissions, Abbott proposes to pay major polluters to effectively keep polluting which is unlikely to achieve even the paltry 5percentt reduction target.
Because of its effective record of curbing pollution and regulating major polluters, the EPA has become the latest target of the GOP's ideologically based budget cuts.
For example, Australia finally passed their climate law to require mandatory carbon pollution reductions for major polluters, the U.S. has adopted aggressive vehicle standards and put on hold the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and China has started to outline the detailed rules and regulations for meeting its binding energy and climate commitments in its 12th 5-year plan.
Current Attorney General and possible next Governor Jerry Brown gave Logue's measure the lengthy but accurate title, "Suspends Air Pollution Control Laws Requiring Major Polluters to Report and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions That Cause Global Warming Until Unemployment Drops Below Specified Level for Full Year".
The Bush administration is violating the Clean Air Act by permitting increases in pollution from power plants and other major polluters (news article, Aug. 28).
