pollution
Example Sentences
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From up in the space shuttle, in 1983, astronaut Sally Ride could see the pollution blotting out her Los Angeles hometown.
From Los Angeles Times
Local air pollution authorities, possessing little power and even less solid science, singled out oil industries, factories, manufacturers and chemical companies, and they weren’t wrong — just looking through the opposite end of the telescope.
From Los Angeles Times
“It is the opinion of the Ford Motor Company that automobile exhaust gases are dissipated in the atmosphere quickly and do not present an air pollution problem.”
From Los Angeles Times
In sum, it has added up to a lost opportunity to decrease our reliance on foreign oil and the pollution created by that oil.
Last year, 7 million people around the world, 600,00 of them children, died from a slow-moving, silent and largely invisible killer: air pollution.
From Salon
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