The ministry helps set policy for the fund, and Parliament draws up annual investing guidelines, which are so squeaky clean and transparent that they include ethical investing strictures (no arms makers, no polluters, etc).. Professional managers make all the investment decisions.
Call your Senators right now and tell them "hell no" to the "Let Polluters Pollute with Impunity Act".
Hillary Rodham Clinton called on the Giuliani campaign to return a $100,000 donation that was made to a soft-money committee supporting his candidacy by a company that she referred to as "No. 1 polluter in America".
The oil polluter continues polluting.
There are no giveaways to powerful corporations, and no funny trading games that let polluters continue polluting while Wall Street reaps billions from carbon derivatives.
And there is no reason why the "polluter pays" principle that has worked so well should be abandoned and more of the financial burden shifted onto average taxpayers.
Indeed, Hunt recently suggested that the Coalition no longer even intends to penalise polluters that increase their emissions.
Ms. Gillard argued, however, that Australia — one of the world's largest polluters, per capita — could no longer ignore its global responsibilities.
In announcing the plan for a carbon tax last July, Ms. Gillard argued that Australia, one of the world's largest polluters per capita, could no longer ignore its global responsibilities.
In drier states, some polluters say the act no longer applies to them and are therefore refusing to renew or apply for permits, making it impossible to monitor what they are dumping, say officials.
Many families could be spared this pain if we simply told polluters that they would no longer be allowed to dump mercury into our air and water.
