smokestack

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The Hotel Diller, still standing today at the southeast corner of First and University, can be seen behind the crisply whitewashed ice-plant smokestack, across the street from its northern neighbor, the Hotel Vendome.

From Seattle Times

The exhibit, called "Our Future Planet," which highlights the promise of technologies to suck up carbon dioxide from the air or from industrial smokestacks, was sponsored by the oil and gas giant Shell.

From Salon

But those ancient megadroughts occurred long before smokestacks and tailpipes started spewing carbon dioxide into the air, warming the planet and changing the climate.

From New York Times

In Chicago, where the company is transforming one facility into a Target logistics center, a botched smokestack implosion by a contractor last April released a massive plume of dust across the city’s Little Village neighborhood.

From Washington Post

Cruise and cargo ships around the world are cleaning up their dirty smokestacks, installing systems that prevent harmful pollutants in their exhaust from escaping into the air.

From Salon