Definition of "polluter"

During the last session of Parliament a Rivers' Pollution Prevention Act was passed, after it had been carefully divested of most of the provisions which could make it objectionable to polluters.

1877, E. W. H. Holdsworth, Sea Fisheries, London: Edward Stanford, page 235

The Environmental Protection Agency said it gets stuck with the bills because it often can't locate polluters or they are out of business or bankrupt.

1993 June 21, “EPA getting stuck paying millions”, in The Argus-Press, Owosso, Michigan

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

2008 July 9, Robert Winnett, Urmee Khan, quoting George W. Bush, “President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'”, in The Telegraph