What is "polluter"

Usage examples of "polluter".

Radical ideologues, faced with Niagara-size flows of polluter money from Coors, Olin, Scaife, and others, set up magazines and newspapers and cultivated a generation of young pundits, writers and propagandists, giving them lucrative sinecures inside right-wing think tanks, now numbering more than 560, from which they bombard the media with carefully honed messages justifying corporate profit-taking.

While Robertson made anti-environmental-ism a principal theme on his Christian Broadcasting Network talk shows, news hours, and documentaries, Reed gave seminars to corporate public relations executives, coaching them on how to use electronic technologies and grassroots organizing to foil environmentalists who interfere with polluter profits.

They have reinterpreted long-standing policies to limit government authority and to facilitate polluter projects.

Paying lip service to conservation and environmental concerns, the report focused almost exclusively on deregulation, giant subsidies, and tax breaks that would benefit virtually every major polluter in the energy industry.

The EPA can use the fund to clean up the site and then bill the responsible polluter triple the cost of cleanup.

Since he was an equal opportunity polluter, the suburbs were getting their fair share of the waste too.

Trouble was, many of the top polluters were his prime financial backers.

Earth Day 1970 caught polluters off guard, but over the next 30 years they mounted an increasingly sophisticated and aggressive counterattack to undermine these laws.

Funded by multinational polluters such as Phillips Petroleum, Exxon, Texaco, Amoco, Shell, Ford Motor Company, and Chevron, the MSLF filed suits intended to block efforts by environmentalists, unions, minorities, and handicapped Americans that might cut into corporate profit taking.

Gorsuch and 23 of her cronies were forced to resign following a congressional investigation of sweetheart deals with polluters, including Coors.

Linda Fisher, a former lobbyist for Monsanto, and Superfund was run by Marianne Horinko, a lobbyist and consultant to polluters, including the Koch Petroleum Group and Koch Industries.

And in January 2003, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers sent out a memo forbidding enforcement personnel from ticketing polluters who fill or foul isolated wetlands without first clearing each case with Washington, D.

School of Public Health, and soon big polluters found that they had a friend at Harvard.

From the start the center was funded by big polluters and trade associations representing the oil, chemical, auto, drug, agribusiness, and mining sectors with gripes against government regulations.

During my early days as an environmental litigator prosecuting polluters on behalf of Hudson River fishermen, I grew accustomed to seeing industry money corrupt talented scientists.