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noun
A subject that pollutes, be it a person, company, country, factory or another subject.
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This is equivalent to "cap and trade," which gives secure "pollution rights" to polluters based on their pollution history.
But experts say the legislation will ultimately limit the amount of pollution credits available to polluters in the Midwest and the South and thereby force up the price of such credits.
Companies that beat their benchmarks for pollution control sell some of their allowances to polluters like coal-heavy utilities.
Like most of his giveaways to polluters, however, this one also failed to generate much praise from major polluting industries.
Second, economists agree that auctioning pollution credits under a cap is more efficient than giving them to polluters for free.
The measure seeks to stop New York companies from selling pollution allowances, which they now earn by cleaning up their own smokestacks, to polluters in those other states.
It is appalling that so much had to be given away to polluters.
But the main aim of the new system is act as a disincentive to polluters.
Kyoto, as he says, was a mere act of appeasement to polluters.
Permits were also intended to be increasingly sold by auction to polluters rather than granted as allocations.
In the real world, the way rights are assigned -- to polluters or to their neighbors -- does matter.
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