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Back in the 1980s, when anti-pollution rules raised costs without providing immediate fuel-economy benefits, there was plenty of angst at Cummins and others in the truck industry.
Fuel-Economy Rules Raise Bar for Engine Makers James R. Hagerty 2010
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It would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, speed the permitting process for new exploration and block some Environmental Protection Agency anti-pollution regulations.
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For the article that described scientists as calling for anti-pollution measures, people had quite opposite reactions: for communitarians and egalitarians, it increased their perception of the risk from global warming, but for individualists and hierarchs, it decreased their perception of the risk.
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Most contemporary Republican politicians reflexively denounce as "environmental extremists" any group of individuals who aggressively crusades for stricter anti-pollution regulations and a crash program to slow global warming.
Edward Flattau: Who Are the Extremists? Edward Flattau 2011
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Apple is more secretive about its supply chain in China than almost all of its rivals, according to a new report by anti-pollution activists who accuse the company's products of degrading the environment and poisoning workers.
Apple secretive about 'polluting and poisoning' supply chain, says report 2011
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In one version, the scientists were described as calling for anti-pollution regulations, while in the other, they were calling for investment in more nuclear power.
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Something about allowing certain groups to skirt anti-pollution laws at the time.
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics. 2010
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Where civil servants and politicians were once able to shrug off complaints about pollution as just so much whining nimbyism, in the future they might have costings that back up the anti-pollution campaigners.
The trouble with the economics of happiness | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011
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Down to the wire, we now know the Republicans' real strategy is to attack abortion and the anti-pollution regulation.
Jeff Madrick: The Tragedy of Defensive Politics Jeff Madrick 2011
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An ill-conceived centerpiece of the congressional Republicans' strategy for addressing the nation's woeful unemployment rate is to roll back what they call "job killing" major anti-pollution regulations.
Edward Flattau: The Jobs Fiction Edward Flattau 2011
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