The word 'polluter' is both correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to someone or something that causes pollution or environmental damage. Example: The company was fined heavily for being a major polluter, releasing harmful chemicals into the river and causing harm to the surrounding ecosystem.
It allows for a huge increase in "offsets"—where a polluter pays someone else to stop polluting instead of curbing his own emissions.
Such problems are best resolved by making the polluter pay: America should tax sulphur-dioxide emissions or compensate Canada for the costs of acid rain.
The world's most populous nation will soon be its biggest polluter and its biggest trader.
It is an important step, not just for China's environment, but also because it gives new power to the large and growing movement of citizen activists who have been lobbying for the government to clean up.China is now emitting almost twice as much carbon dioxide as the next-biggest polluter, America.
On the principle of "polluter pays" offending media groups could, within reason, be forced to carry the costs of any investigation affecting their newspapers......This inquiry will doubtless devote many hours to debating the almost terminal tension between the right to privacy and the public's right to know.
Another big polluter, the Beijing Coking-Chemical Plant, has been relocated.China's government has required new cars and buses to meet European Union emission standards, and has cut coal use sharply by switching to natural gas and other fuels.None of this has worked (at least not as well as the government had hoped).
In 2003, the most recent year for which figures are available, America's power-generation business, arguably the world's biggest single polluter, spent a rather smaller proportion of its revenues on R&D than did America's pet-food business.
It is America that matters, not just because it is the world's biggest polluter, but also because without its participation, the biggest polluters of the future China and India will not do anything.The best news in the fight against climate change is that business is starting to invest in clean energy seriously.
Once, this method might have precluded the economic flexibility of a tax namely, that the abatement effort can vary from polluter to polluter, according to cost.
Despite occasional successes, polluter-pay taxes have failed repeatedly because of two indisputable problems: they are inflationary and they are regressive.
By some estimates, China's urban areas, already home to around 560m people, may well have to accommodate another 300m people by 2020.The central government, worried about the country's growing reliance on imported fuel and anxious to dispel its image as a super-polluter in the making, has begun to talk enthusiastically about the need for "green GDP" growth.
