the polluter pays principle

polluter | American Dictionary

polluter
noun[ C ]
us/pəˈlu·t̬ər/
a person or organization that pollutes

polluter | Business English

polluter
noun[ C ]
uk /pəˈluːtər/us
ENVIRONMENT
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.

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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.
Thus, the energy-intensive industries, which were considered to be major polluters, were more carefully regulated by the local governments than other industries.
Moreover, polluters are now charged once pollution load exceeds 30 per cent of the threshold level.
Nevertheless, if local officials are subject to competitive electoral pressure, they need to be responsive to the diffuse public which is adversely affected by activities of the few polluters.
The regulations require the use of 80 per cent for grants or loans to co-finance abatement by polluters who have paid a levy and have abatement investment projects.
The authorities check polluters' reports in several ways, including internal consistency, consistency with material balance models, historical data from the facility, direct monitoring, and surprise inspections.
The common law in many poor countries, if we are permitted to use this expression in a universal context, de facto recognizes polluters' rights, not those of the pollutees.
By looking at the nature of production in these firms, it was seen that 94.56 per cent of firms could not be viewed as potential polluters.
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