pollute

Example Sentences

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Soaring black-market prices of cooking gas in India's capital are pushing poorer families back to wood and coal, raising health risks and worsening air quality in the highly polluted megacity.

From Barron's

Asian countries are ramping up use of polluting coal to tackle energy shortages and price spikes linked to the Iran war, but the crisis could have an environmental silver lining.

From Barron's

The ETS forces industry to pay a carbon price for polluting practices.

From BBC

Russia's ambassador was summoned by the foreign ministry in protest and shown a bottle of cloudy water from the polluted river.

From BBC

This is provided in part by polluting diesel generators, even if most larger aircraft carriers are nuclear powered, an energy source that produces far less emissions than fossil fuels.

From Barron's