Polluter

Does Alberta’s energy regulatory regime operate under the “polluter pays” principle when it comes to who is responsible for abandoning and reclaiming old and inactive infrastructure?

I can't help but wonder if the eminent economists preference for a society wide tax, rather than regulations on the polluting industry (the polluter pay principle) doesn't have something to do with neoliberal ideology.

The United States is the world's second-largest climate polluter.

Funders in the polluter nations facing significant climate liability fund various institutions—media, nonprofits, universities, agencies, think tanks, and celebrities—to spread disinformation to support the first standard.

Known in legal circles as the “polluter pays” model, in 2019, 28 Canadian law professors wrote an in support of municipalities pursuing such legal action.

Mexico is the second largest polluter in Latin America, after Brazil.

Case in point: the recycling of car batteries was a major U.S. industry — and polluter — until stringent new lead-pollution standards were introduced in 2009.

Coca-Cola emerged as the worst polluter of the four companies in the report by far, with emissions greater than the other three combined.

Instead of increased reliance on mineral production in China, a major polluter, Washington should encourage domestic mining under world-leading environmental and labor standards.

Top polluter China and the Southeast Asian nations of Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam account for more than half of plastic pollution in the ocean, Ocean Conservancy said in 2015.

Wicker was quoting clothing industry magnate Eileen Fisher, who while accepting an award in 2015 from Riverkeeper for her commitment to environmental causes, : “The clothing industry is the second largest polluter in the world … second only to oil.

An investigation by the Guardian revealed that the company has been responsible for 4.38% of the world’s carbon emissions since 1965, and named it as the biggest corporate polluter in the world.

As early as 2017, Greenpeace reported the finding that the Philippines is the world’s third worst plastic polluter of the world’s oceans after China and Indonesia.

Commercial ground shipping is poised to remain a major polluter for the foreseeable future.

For World Cleanup Day on Sept. 15, Greenpeace co-ordinated a cleanup activity and plastic polluter brand audit in several Canadian cities, including one in Toronto's Don Valley.

It is easily the world’s worst polluter, topping the Guardian’s list of the 20 biggest companies responsible for a third of all the planet’s carbon emissions since 1965.

It is the second largest polluter in the world after the oil industry.

It upheld the polluter-pay principle — — although government and industry officials say the change is now affecting the ability of some companies to access financing, as banks grow more cautious in their lending.

Many climate revolutionaries have come before her only to learn the truth and stand as a mute polluter in the end.

The key to renewable energy developers pulling off these kinds of massive investments on an unsubsidized basis is levelling the playing field through a properly designed polluter pay system, as TIER does for electricity.