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• n  a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment

• The polluter gets very rich.
• More than half the nations polled see the United States as the world's top polluter and Americans are considered among the least concerned about the effects of global warming.
• That is far above the international average of about 4 tons per capita, which makes America the top five carbon dioxide polluter on the planet.

• defiler

News & Articles

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• Great Plains Energy in top 25 of carbon dioxide polluters, group claims
  Political Economy Research Institute has ranked the top 100 “polluters index” based on emissions of CO2
  June 11, 2013 - The Kansas City Star
• IEA: Energy emissions rose to record high in 2012
  STOCKHOLM — The world's energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to a record high of 31.6 billion tons, even though the U.S. posted its lowest emissions since the mid-1990s, the International Energy Agency said Monday. In its annual World Energy Outlook report, the Paris-based IEA said top carbon polluter China had the largest emissions growth last year, up 300 million ...
  June 10, 2013 - Boston Herald
• NL Industries files lawsuit about local slag site naming Old Bridge as a defendant, among others
  OLD BRIDGE — To counter the Environmental Protection Agency announcement last Friday that named NL Industries as the sole polluter responsible for cleanup of the Raritan Bay slag site, the Texas-based corporation filed suit in federal court Wednesday through its attorney Christopher R. Gibson of Archer & Griener P.C. of Haddonfield.
  June 5, 2013 - MyCentralJersey.com

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in istockAnalyst.com (press release)
  Obama explained that under his plan "every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter."
• Joe Lieberman in New York Times
  Some of our colleagues, who up until this time have been at least publicly reluctant about the 'polluter pays' putting a price on carbon pollution, said that they'd be willing to discuss limited forms of doing that in this bill,Lieberman...
• Tim Flannery in International Herald Tribune
  Hard steps are now required where a decade ago we may have been able to take smaller and easier ones,Flannery said. "We need to get the polluter to pay, and once that happens if the price is right we'll start seeing investments in a new...