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Citizens can see who the big polluters are in their area.

And ever since, I've been there in the fight against the big polluters.

"What's one of the world's biggest polluters want with us?"

Federal prosecutors are taking on our biggest polluters and winning.

This is about the big money, the big polluters who have a lot of power.

They had the support both of the major green groups and of the biggest polluters.

Indeed, the United States is held by other group members to be the world's biggest polluter.

"It is all about the past - big polluters, special interests, nuclear, oil and coal."

What means can we use to successfully persuade the biggest polluters to cut their emissions?

As attorney general of Connecticut, he took on the big polluters to clean up toxic waste.

"You will see Australia's biggest polluters changing their behaviour" as a result of the law, she said.

At present it must approve the allocations that each member country makes for its biggest polluters.

It is also one of state's biggest polluters.

Put another way, are farms or hospitals bigger polluters?

The city acknowledges that its sewer plants are a big polluter, but it wants the suburbs to pay their share.

I hadn't realised just how much the big polluters are being subsidised.

That's why the big polluters are supporting Governor Bush.

Usually used against everyday citizens protesting big polluters, developers, lobbyists and such, but it works here as well.

We must get the biggest polluter in the world, the United States, to reduce its large-scale pollution.

The defence and energy departments, impervious to markets, are among the country's biggest polluters.

Many power plants in the Midwest are big polluters and would face large cleanup bills under the President's plan.

Why is the US still the biggest polluter per capita in the world ?

Their populations are the biggest polluters but also among the most vulnerable to weather-related catastrophes.

Cars and factories aren't the only big polluters.

Meagre targets were set; the US and other big polluters walked out of the agreement.

The first one is this: we need everyone to take part, especially all the countries that are major polluters.

That could weaken state and local leverage over major polluters.

Lawn chemical runoff is among the major polluters of water.

Many top agency managers, appointed by the governor, go on to work for major polluters.

With the emission limit values, all the various sources must be considered, not just the major polluters.

The water authorities thus not only set and enforce pollution standards, they are major polluters themselves.

It handled more than 1,300 investigations and made 200 arrests of major polluters during his tenure.

Aviation is not a major polluter, it is just a visible one.

Why are we importing anything from countries who are identified as major polluters?

The A74 will attract many extra lorries, which are major polluters.

On the other hand, no targets can be reached until the world's major polluters join the EU.

China, a major polluter that did sign the treaty, is not bound by its restrictions because it is considered a developing country.

Environmentally, because of its ubiquity, McDonald's is erroneously thought to be a major polluter.

Meanwhile, new environmental laws have meant that emissions from electrical plants, a major polluter, have been decreasing since 2001.

Obviously, parks are not major polluters.

Despite their efforts to disguise mass incineration as "waste to energy" (letter, Oct. 24), it is a major polluter.

For instance, storm-drain refuse is increasingly being targeted as a major polluter of our waterways."

Bali brought the hope that China, as a major polluter, and Africa, as an innocent victim, would be involved.

Mr. Chirac, in his news conference, shrugged and said: "Americans are major polluters.

However, the government withdrew this provision after encountering fierce opposition from South Africa, a major polluter.

Mr. Spinrad is concerned about the poisoning of the earth and America's role as a major polluter.

It is, of course, absolutely vital to find better ways of reducing emissions both from the major polluters and from other sources such as agriculture.

Major concerns included announced targets, granting of property rights to pollute and providing free permits to major polluters.

Their motivation is a fear that if they are identified as a major polluter, the public will punish them in the market by shunning their products.

The scientists' findings show that in 1987 the burnings ruined more forest cover than previously thought and proved to be major polluters of the earth's atmosphere.

Business leaders say that the main polluters alone should be held responsible.

We do not see any disadvantages to increasing taxes for large industrial groups, who are the main polluters.

And among the main polluters were the tanneries on the eastern shore!

Poorer nations, he said, see leverage because the north, the main polluter, wants them to cut emissions, stop deforesting and make other changes.

They drew up an ambitious two-stage, 10-year plan to clean up the river and identified 29 cities as the main polluters.

Belgium, the main polluter of the Meuse, has ignored two community rulings reprimanding its dumping practices.

As a first step, joint financing has been arranged for cleaning up the Dnepr river, one of the main polluters of the Black Sea.

It is responsible for the cleanup because in 1999 it merged with Allied Chemical, which owned a plant that was accused of being one of the lake's main polluters.

The scientists agreed that an enormous volume of pesticides, fertilizers, detergents and other chemicals had turned the Danube into one of the main polluters of the Black Sea.

Isotopic analysis clearly pointed to the rich silver-mining and smelting district of Rio Tinto near the modern city of Nerva as the main polluter.

We also need to place massive tax increases on diesel buses, taxi's and hgv's which are delivering goods in the capital, as vehicles of this type are the main polluters in the area of transportation.

The main polluter, the Once-ler, invisible but for his gesticulating, tree-chopping, thneed-knitting arm, is, like all Seuss villains, a creature of restless energy and ambition - the Cat in the Hat as capitalist.

Let me point out that the European Union is the world's leading trading partner as well as the primary provider of development aid, achieving a contribution level of 40 %; at the same time, however, it is also one of the main polluters.

Power Plants and Mills Are Main Polluters Cracow is in a particularly difficult situation because much of the pollution stems from the region's power plants and blast furnaces at steel mills, where measures to cut pollution advance at a snail's pace for lack of money.

Many developing nations argue that since the industrialized countries are the world's main polluters, they should pay for improvements in the global environment; and since they are rich, they should pay for the transfers of technology necessary for the developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, stop deforestation and carry out other changes.