pollution
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Cirino and the Plastic Pollution Coalition are now calling on other public agencies to also encourage builders to use healthier materials.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
Pollution from U.S. power plants rose last year, a rare uptick in an otherwise long-term downward trend, partly because of more coal being burned to generate electricity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Pollution has ravaged once-abundant stocks of fish and crab.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
Pollution from the traffic, factories, and construction is all severe; the benefits of all of these things are also extraordinary in a country that was ravaged by war just a few decades ago.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026
See Verses Pole-climbing, 159, 308 Pollution, 3 n.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Paul, Eden
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