Power plants are the largest major source of emissions in the U.S., together accounting for roughly one third of all domestic greenhouse gas pollution.

Polluters Must Pay

Richer countries do much of the environmental damage.

Students took the lead in the campaign against pollution.

The lecturer spoke on pollution problems.

Fishing is prohibited because of the pollution.

Vladimir Putin has ordered the cleanup of pollution in Baikal

It's unlikely this is just because of the nuclear accident.

This village is free from air pollution.

Industrial emissions cause air pollution.

And because methane is a much shorter lived gas than CO2, we can prevent some of the worst of short term warming through its mitigation.

Cutting methane is actually cheaper than cutting carbon.

Now, even lower emissions!

Air pollution measuring station (right), Šmizla statue (left).

Map of China's rice pollution is widely shared on Weibo.

We must rescue the environment from pollution.

Why Cutting Carbon Emissions is not Enough

In China, worsening air pollution and growing concerns about energy security have led the government to consider a cap on coal use and an absolute reduction in emissions within the next 10 15 years.

We heard about polluted air, polluted water, poisoned food.

Map of nuclear pollution (Caesium 137) in Europe, 1996 (ten years after the Chernobyl disaster).

The so called emissions trading system aims to control carbon emissions by allocating tradable permits.

The Case for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The result was a dramatic decline in CO2 emissions.

But the challenge does not end with reducing emissions.

You remember how India was. There was no pollution.

A second major policy thrust is a cap and trade system to reduce carbon emissions.

The portal Portalb.mk is covering pollution issues in Macedonia closely and is continuously providing coverage of the protests against air pollution in Tetovo.

The biggest emitters of the twenty first century, including India and China, are unwilling to sign up to tough, costly emission targets.

Every year, in autumn and winter, Hong Kong's Air Pollution Index flies off the charts, an indication that the impact of pollution cannot be fenced off by borderlines.

They do this by reducing or eliminating completely the number of harmful particles in the air in the vicinity of the emitting source (but they do not target the source of the emission itself).

In fact, there could well be less water than there is now, owing to pollution and climate change.

High winds caused by parching of the earth's surface may disperse pollution.

The pollution engulfed the city with heavy haze and reduced visibility.

The heavy pollution in Beijing has led to a surge in mask sales online.

Are we going to spend another ten years controlling ?

Studies have already established the negative effect of air pollution on health.

Because of the problem of air pollution, the bicycle may some day replace the automobile.

This theory is currently under criticism, however.

The automatic system for measuring pollution, located in the center of Skopje, caused quite a stir when it reported alarming levels of air pollution last year.

In Kyoto, leaders committed to a cut of 5.2 below 1990 levels by 2010.

China argues, correctly, that it is still behind the US and Japan in per capita emissions, but this does not reduce the costs imposed on the world (including Japan and the US).

If a polluter harms others, those who are harmed normally have a legal remedy. For example, if a factory leaks toxic chemicals into a river that I use to irrigate my farm, killing my crops, I can sue the factory owner.

GDP counts everything from air pollution to the destruction of our redwoods.

If a polluter harms others, those who are harmed normally have a legal remedy.

He instructed that sources of financing, plans, and those responsible for implementing the cleanup of the pollution be identified.