Mr. Bush likes to point to the fact that Texas is an industrial state and that's why it's so polluted. That's not the case. In fact for the industries we look at, California has far more of these big industrial smog polluters. But California enforces the law. Texas doesn't.
Quotes about polluters (16 Quotes)
Environmentalists also denounced the emerging proposal. Here comes the mother of all environmental rollbacks, ... This could become a blank check for big polluters. It would also be a terrible precedent.
Polluters have mounted a public pressure campaign, even enlisting some members of Congress, to lobby EPA to weaken the law even more. For the sake of our lakes and streams and the wildlife and people who depend on them, the law needs to be strengthened, not watered down.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
The narrow margin of this vote sends a strong message to polluters that stronger mercury controls are on the horizon. Our clean air and clean water are simply not for sale.
We must not use this tragedy as an excuse to let oil companies and other polluters evade the protections that safeguard the public's health.
In the long run, industrial structure and localized environmental crises will replace individual polluters as the No 1 environmental threat in the country.
The board has now set a terrible precedent telling polluters it is cheaper to pollute and ignore the Clean Water Act. Hilmar should be held to the same environmental standard as everyone else in the State of California.
I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.
As Colorado's attorney general, she allowed polluters to evade environmental fines and did little after a gold mine's cyanide leaks killed all life in a 17-mile stretch of river, ... In another case, she sat out the fight against a corporate power plant that broke air pollution laws 19,000 times.
Instead of forcing polluters to pay to clean up the mess they have made, the Republicans have made it easier for them to pollute our air and our water,
We cannot allow the continued rape of the land by polluters who would deplete our forests, scar our public lands, pollute our air and water and then have the tax code subsidize their destruction, ... This 17.8 billion in corporate welfare is unconscionable.
It would...in a variety of different ways put the fox in charge of guarding the henhouse. Unfortunately, it's a polluters' dream bill. They've bought and paid for their congressmen and they got their bill.
biggest polluters worldwide by volume of waste and by area of land contaminated.
This radical proposal is a 180-degree flip-flop from what the administration has been arguing in court. Instead of protecting public health, now EPA wants to protect the polluters. The proposal would completely sabotage clean-air law enforcement, and it would be open season for power plants to pollute even more than they do now.
In 22 states parents cant take kids fishing and eat the fish if theyre lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44 of all river bodies and streams its not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.