Companies that pollute too much pay $2,000, plus inflation, for each extra ton.
In advance of China's President Hu Jintao's arrival in the U.S., last week China pledged to go as far as rejecting construction projects that pollute too much.
The rule will also allow coal plants to remain in operation longer if they agree to improve their efficiency, whereas under the CPP, many coal plants would have likely been forced to close because they pollute too much.
But it also suffers from this growth," says Green-Weiskel. "The people who want to slap China on the wrist for being irresponsible and polluting too much need to acknowledge this broader truth.
It was partly a way to get people to buy new cars, 'cause we want more economic activity, it was partly a way to get old models, that were polluting too much, sort of off the road.
If you pollute too much, it will be bad for the air and no fishermen could fish and then they would not eat and... .. His new-found consciousness of how one person's actions can affect an entire ecosystem and community could not have made me more stunned or proud.
The winners will be those with an excessive zeal for profit and "freedom" from proper constraints: automakers who want to make vehicles that are unsafe and pollute too much, the bankers and Wall Streeters who brought us the housing and financial crises, and polluters who would relieve themselves--or their factories' poisons--into the public's air, land and water.
"Without better transport, we will continue to pollute, too".
But scientists say humanity is now polluting the atmosphere with too much of a good thing.
I'm making a political and social statement because I see farms going out of business and water you can't drink because it's polluted from farms that use too much pesticides".
