pollutant
IPA: pʌɫˈutʌnt
noun
- A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.
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Examples of "pollutant" in Sentences
- The main pollutant was suspended particulate matter, which is usually attributed to coal burning and automotive exhaust.
- When we burn fossil fuel, excess carbon dioxide (CO2), the chief global warming pollutant, is released to the atmosphere.
- SCOTUS cited CAA as clearly defining what a pollutant is and determined that CO2 was therefor a pollutant removing that argument.
- The display of the empirical evidence on the local pollutant is intended to enable and change typical lay-expert communication patterns, by raising the standards of evidence, or at least changing who produces this evidence.
- EPA , a 5-4 majority broadly rewrote the definition of "pollutant," but it also narrowly held that "EPA no doubt has significant latitude as to the manner, timing, content, and coordination of its regulations" our emphasis.
- Americans represent 5 percent of the world’s population but contribute 45 percent of the world’s emission of carbon dioxide, the main pollutant that causes global warming, according to a report by the nonprofit group Environmental Defense.
- It was the Supreme Court, not the EPA, that decided in 2007 that carbon dioxide meets the definition of pollutant under the Clean Air Act—a law enacted by a democratically elected Congress and signed by a democratically elected President, George H.W. Bush.
- In 1989, coal companies and the Edison Electric Institute hired Temple Barker and Sloane, a pro-industry research organization, to conduct an economic analysis of the effects of a cap & trade system on sulphur dioxide (SO2), the main pollutant that causes acid rain.
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