Sentence examples for weaker pollution from inspiring English sources
A trade organisation arguing for, say, weaker pollution controls is instantly seen as self-interested.
The Guardian has also learned that despite UK claims to the contrary, energy industry representatives repeatedly and forcefully pushed for weaker pollution limits at meetings in Brussels.
The plant regulations eventually advanced by the commission would leave Europe under a weaker pollution regime than China's, according to research by Greenpeace.
The UK government maintains that industry representatives do not negotiate but the Guardian has learned that at key meetings in Brussels, they forcefully pushed for weaker pollution limits.
The commission had previously allowed hundreds of energy industry lobbyists to aggressively push for weaker pollution limits as part of the official negotiating teams of EU member states.
But while a trade organisation arguing for, say, weaker pollution controls is instantly seen as self-interested, a green organisation opposing such a weakening is seen as altruistic - even if a dispassionate view of the controls might suggest they are doing more harm than good.
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We used river water instead of effluent and the results of our other experiments revealed only a weak estrogenic pollution, explaining why we did not find increased VTG levels in juveniles.
But lobbying often waters down even weak anti-pollution measures.When Mr Bohm left his post, he pointed a finger at "the political-representation system, which looks after vested interests before it looks after the general interest".
And conditions could easily get worse — weaker laws, more pollution — if President Bush proceeds with a last-minute rule change aimed at stripping the Clean Air Act of one of its most important provisions.
According to Mr Huang, the worst weaknesses of China's state-led capitalism a reliance on creaking state companies rather than more efficient private ones, a weak financial sector, pollution and rampant corruption are increasingly distorting the economy.But what about the growing cohort of Chinese companies starting to strut the world stage?
