Trump's aggressive pro-polluter action in attacking the Clean Power Plan means residents of heavily polluted states like Texas, Missouri and Wisconsin will suffer from a more polluted environment while missing out on many of the benefits of a fair and just clean energy economy the Clean Power Plan would help create.
Al Gore has sought to inject fresh momentum into the Copenhagen build-up, saying he is certain Barack Obama will attend and predicting a rise in civil disobedience against fossil-fuel polluters unless drastic action is taken over global warming.
Europe is pushing America, the world's biggest polluter, to take direct action to cut its emissions rather than rely on trading emission cuts with other countries and planting new forests.
Europe took the position that America, as the world's biggest polluter, should take direct action to cut its emissions rather than rely on paying other people to help it meet its pollution targets (either by trading emission permits or by claiming credits for forests and agricultural land, which can soak up carbon from the atmosphere).
But climate advocates tried to spin the fallout from Trump's election positively, arguing that other nations aren't likely to wait for the U.S. ― the world's second largest polluter ― to take action.
There are different competing policy objectives that a government has to consider, one of which is fairness to the polluter (by not punishing action that was legal at the time) and the other is protection of the public (by cleaning up the hazardous waste site).
Taking legal action against polluters is a paramount priority for Riverkeeper; they go after large, notorious polluters like Mobil, General Electric, MTA and the City of New York.
In judicial cases, the Justice Department pursues legal action against polluters on behalf of the E.P.A.
In 1970, he discovered a dusty 1899 statute, the Refuse Act, which allowed individuals to force action against polluters and be entitled to half the fines imposed.
Greenpeace knows that the best way to fight corporate polluters is through collective action.
Instead of offering solutions to any environmental problems, the GOP is just trying to block any action that polluters oppose.
