Citations:pollutician

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Noun: "(derogatory) a politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage"[edit]

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  • 1992 — "Senate Candidates and the Issues: Environment", The Orange County Register, 22 June 1992:
    "Money collected from pollution-case damages could be used for projects chosen by environmentalists rather than spending money on lobbying 'polluticians' for regulations and legislation that don't do the job, he said."
  • 1992 — Bill Tammeus, "Starbeams", The Kansas City Star, 10 July 1992:
    In fact, he's what might be called a pollutician. Boris Yeltsin wants to swap factories, minerals and other property to pay off Russia's foreign debt.
  • 2001 — Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury (2008), →ISBN, page 211:
    Here the polluticians and the developers carved up the cake with gusto.
  • 2005Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Hyperion Books (2005), →ISBN, page 246:
    Even the ones who were genuinely interested in the environment were hamstrung by the ones in the pockets of big business. The polluticians, as the media had nicknamed them.

Noun: "(sometimes derogatory) a politician who supports policies and initiatives designed to reduce environmental pollution"[edit]

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  • 1970 — "Beware of the pollutician…", Mining in Canada, August 1970:
    There is no longer room for back slapping and spoutings by headline conscious polluticians. If they have so much energy perhaps it would be a good idea if they thought of ways to assist the mining industry and the regulatory authorities in their most difficult and thankless tasks.
  • 1971 — "Sharp Setback for Falconbridge", Mining Journal, 13 August 1971:
    This is a point that has always been denied by the lead producers in the USA, but has been taken up by the "polluticians" and has already led to a greater use of unleaded fuel.
  • 1971Electroplating and Metal Finishing, Volume 24:
    Too many owners of factory chimneys have already capitulated to the negative attitude of the polluticians and have converted to smokeless fuels.
  • 1981Clean Air, Volume 11-13:
    Bernard Leadbeater had a unique approach to the environmental problems which had engaged his mind since 1964, when he became the first full time environmentalist for the Agricultural Division of ICI Limited. At ICI he dealt with all forms of pollution from the Division's activities and coined the term "pollutician" to describe himself.

Noun: "(derogatory) a corrupt politician"[edit]

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  • 2005 — Jalani A. Niaah, "Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement", in Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience, (ed. Elísio Salvado Macamo), Codesria (2005), →ISBN, page 24:
    Indeed the Rastafarian brethren contend that the '"polluticians" [politicians] are selling us out' for their own self-serving interests.
  • 2010 — S. S. Bhatti, "Only Individuals with Strong Convictions Make Worthy Parties", in Songs for the Soul, RoseDog Books (2010), →ISBN, page 173:
    A Politician with strong convictions becomes a Statesman
    But weaker element in him makes him a Pollutician