0 a person or organization that pollutes
1 a person or organization that pollutes
2 a person or organization that puts harmful substances or waste into the water, air, etc., causing damage to the environment:
The region's third-largest industrial polluter reduced its emissions by about a third.
Nowhere are large polluters given opportunities to decide what cost and efforts are acceptable to them.
Figure 1 presents net annualized abatement costs for dust emission reductions from the survey of polluters.
The resulting higher uncertainty in economic and social impacts is, consequently, generating strong opposition among polluters and users.
The environmental regulation requires the polluters to comply with safe environmental standards.
The bubble concept allows various polluters in a geographical area - with varying abatement costs - to jointly abate a predetermined quantity of pollutants.
Five firms started functioning during the 1980s and the 1990s, but in locations such as industrial estates where large polluters were already existing.
Municipal polluters accounted for an additional 18 per cent of expenditures out of their budgets or with money borrowed on commercial terms.
Certainly the coal-using business lobby used its in-uence and resources to complicate, delay or weaken attempts by the courts or smoke inspectorates to penalize polluters.
