Doubtless last week's scrapping of proposed anti-pollution measures will be portrayed as one of those.
As EPA chief, McCarthy would step into a lion's den of controversy over proposed anti-pollution regulations.
Now, with the clean air brought by anti-pollution legislation, British peppered moths are once again peppered.
While this particular impact would be a one-time charge, long-term impacts could include tighter anti-pollution regulations and stricter enforcement.
Anti-pollution laws are only slowly being strengthened, and enforcement of existing ones has been lax, with small punishments for offenders.
They can't require you to buy a car with an anti-pollution device.
Plans for further hypothecated anti-pollution taxes are now on the drawing board.
Among them: ethnic clashes in West Java, a riot following an earthquake in central Sumatra, and an anti-pollution protest that led to riots in Pasaruan, East Java.
On discovering it was an expensive Italian brand, they are said to have stripped him to the waist and tried to make him wear shirt which bore an anti-pollution slogan.
The Republicans celebrated last month's triumph by fast-tracking several K-Street favourites: exempting older coal-fired plants from new anti-pollution rules, and making it easier to open national forests to logging and drilling.
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But lobbying often waters down even weak anti-pollution measures.
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In a second, unanimous ruling involving Duke Energy (nyse: DKE - news - people ), the justices said that before making major modifications to coal-fired power plants, plant owners must have a permit, which would require that the facility be outfitted with anti-pollution controls.
However, yet another study published this year suggests it is going away as anti-sulphur pollution-control measures kick in.
Authorities have asked the public to set off fewer fireworks in Beijing to reduce pollution, a new anti-extravagance drive has prompted government officials and state-owned companies to cancel their banquets at high-end hotels and a campaign against food waste is leading to half-portions in restaurants.
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